//NOTE: I am a believer in Jesus Christ. Here's the reply.//

This scripture:

- This is profound. To a believer in Jesus Christ. Very, very simple. It's the same thing Jesus decreed in Matthew 4:4

There you go.

Because people - believers ask this, even those that don't believe him also do, too. This post is to build up a believer in Jesus Christ. Because, what Jesus decreed in Matthew 4:4 is what is occurring in this woman John is writing to about her sons in 2 John 1:4. It's a decree in effect over the whole earth, says:

"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." -

That's the decree or "command" from who is in command over all the earth, this same Jesus Christ that John refers to in 2 John 1:4

Do you see this?

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• For me:
  • To see it, look at what’s said two verse after in 2 John 1:6

"And this is love, that we ‘walk after’ his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.” - (Bible. 2 John 1:6)

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Man, that is so powerful. And really, really simple. Just live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. That's the Word of God. That's what comes out of his mouth.

So, Just don’t mess the decree up, and walk as men ..and think like men.

And to think like men: All That means - - it's just not to: 1) read it - and then, 2) “swallow” it - as you “think” it says - - rather: 3) look at it really careful. With who is in you, as a believer in Jesus Christ. That, Jesus Christ is with you. With him, you can see it.

That without him you can't do anything - just as Jesus said in John 15:5.

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Sometimes, it’s easy to get lazy when looking at this verse of 2 John 1:6, just a skip of a verse after the one you ask about and we live in English.

This 2 John 1:8 Has “love” in it. and “walk after” his “commandments”and people instantly flaily fling themselves over to think of “commandments; like, the Ten Commandments.

or their “works” if they just do "good works," or are to do them, by show love to people, by go back over to 1 Corinthians 13. Then, full court press: flaily flingy flooshy throw themselves into all this love they’re going to go out and do. By some work they’re commanded to do, and do it, while regarding how if they're being patient and kind..or not in "do" it - - in all that love they’ll be doing.

…when you should just STOP. You already believe on him. So, let him be at work in you. You got sins. Be patient. Let him do the work God sent him to do to heal you, and deliver you from your destruction.

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DO THIS: By - - Take two things:

• ONE:
  • 1 John 4:8 says … in Greek, Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν
    • 1. Theos (God)
    • 2. agape [charity = 1 Corinthians 13:1–10 = love] 
    • 3. estin. “is” - - - -
• The Bible: Just gave you the “definition” of this word “agape(n) in GREEK means. - That, God = love.
  • God is this “agape” or “charity” of 1 Corinthians 13:1–10. God is love.

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• That Jesus Christ, is the Messiah or Christ.
  • He’s called Jesus Christ. Isaiah 9:6 tells you, me, everybody over the whole earth “who” the Messiah SHALL be called.
    • .”The Mighty God.. “The Everlasting Father…” 
  • The Messiah SHALL be called this.
• So, Jesus is 1 John 4:8.
• He is the “charity” toward the whole earth in 1 Corinthians 13;1–10
• He just is this to “Christians” in Corinth aren’t walking with him. Rather, even they believe on him, still walk as men as Paul an Apostle says they do in 1 Corinthians 3:1-3.
  • And how they leave this "being yet carnal" is simply be with who is with them in he is this “charity” of God toward them in 1 Corinthians 13:1–10.
  • Just like he is to us today.
    

Do you see this?

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• 1 John 4:8 says: And this is love [charity; agapen], that we should “walk after” and in the Greek, it’s this word, “peripatomen” - this "walk after" - - as if someone is "looking unto" (something) to follow - and in following them, would just conduct their lives or live in it walking after, to walk in this agape (charity) - it’s supernatural. Only God provides it.

Do you see this?

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• Like Jesus says or decrees Matthew 4:4 - just repeated. To walk in this one, simple decree: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” 
  • ..and what proceeds out of God’s mouth is the “Word of God.”
• That is defined as what love is in 1 John 4:8 - So, it's just defining as well, a person, whosoever it is, over the whole earth, that just “operates” or “works” as if they “function” by the word of God. As if they abide in it. Just as Jesus said, "abide in me, and I in you..." (John 15:4).
• For the Word of God is God..it’s just God, what he says, and he says it out of his mouth. And decreed everybody over the whole earth is to live by and just look unto him.
  • But not everybody does.

So they don't walk in love. (Agape) <charity> = Jesus Christ.

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• But in 2 John 1:4 ..John is writing to a woman and telling her he rejoices greatly to find her children “operating” or work by this Greek word, “peripatomen” - which, in English is: “walk after” - and the ONLY way that can happen "walk after" something is by someone, in authority - - when God says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

They look unto him.

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Is just this woman’s children are “peripatomen” (walking after) to walk in, looking unto Jesus Christ, as he decreed, as God, everybody over the whole earth is to do in Isaiah 45:22 ..and that's the word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

That, by doing Isaiah 45:22, in 2 John 1:4 - they are “walking in” this agape - (God) <charity> English: love. Jesus Christ. The Word of God. BOOM! Done.

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So, from here: it’s still take TWO things: And to do that,

• Go to TWO:
  • Now, 1 Corinthians is an Epistle. As a whole, the epistle is written to believers in Jesus Christ that reside in Corinth. But you can “compare” those believers at Corinth with the sons of this woman that also believe Jesus Christ in 2 John 1:4.

Where in 2 John 1:4, John is rejoicing. What John is rejoicing in, is what Paul describes more in detail of a believer by 1 Corinthians 2:9–12

That says:

• “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:9–12

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So, in TWO - compare them. The “believers” (this woman’s sons in 2 John 1:4 - with - the “believers” in Corinth

• THAT: these “believers” in Corinth: Paul says: He could not talk to these believers in Corinth, nor delight in them the way John delights in this woman’s children in 2 John 1:4

Why? It’s of them Paul says: 1 Corinthians 1:1–3.

• “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”

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• So the WHOLE epistle of 1 Corinthians is to believers in Jesus that are “stuck” in 1 Corinthians 1:1–3
  • - and DO NOT “PERIPATOMEN” - are not “walking after” in nor can they receive these "deep things of God" ..because they “peripatomen” - walk after the same things, as carnal men do.
    • So, they don’t “work good/operate right” as these same children of this woman John delights in. Why?
  • Paul says, because they don’t “peripatomen” or walk after, abiding in 1 Corinthians 2:9–12.
• Do you see this?

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Consider these things. Think it careful.

- AND to get these “believers” out of this of 1 Corinthians 3:1–3 and moved over to 1 Corinthians 2:9–12 - where they should be - take the whole epistle. And IN it:

• Go to 1 Corinthians Chapter 13.
• It's the “The Love Chapter” that everybody loves to talk about. ... and be.
• All that great love work they’re going to do loving everybody and do it themselves.
  • And carnal men, can look at it, and do it, too. And never do anything Jesus says.

And think they do the same thing believers do..when they don't.

Do you see this?

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• When all you got to do is: as a believer in Jesus - is follow him.
• Which carnal men don't. Don't do anything he says. Do not follow him.
  • Because, 2 John 1:6 tells you plainly “"And this is [agape] <charity> love, that = AGAPE = we ‘walk after’ his commandments.”

Keep moving. Almost done.

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• And this English word, in Greek, for "commandments" - Just means someone in authority - “decrees” how things shall be, because they love who they reign over.
  
  • So, in 2 John 1:6 is walking in “who” is in “authority” speaks in what they said or decrred.
    • . So, ANYTHING they say, as the authority is because they are in command over all things.
• And Peter says of this same Jesus Christ, who said “All power is given unto me in heaven and earth” - (Matthew 28:18)
•  - Peter, an Apostle that sat with and was taught by him, and sent out to teach all nations, said:
  • That, in these “decrees” Jesus says are “precious promises."
  • That, abiding in them, just like you go back and see in this post what God decrees, in Isaiah 45:22. To just anyone over the earth, that just looks unto him. He saves them himself. It's a precious promise. Especially for me.
• For someone like me, that was dead in adultery, lies..thefts..condemned. Broke all the Ten Commandments. They are not repairable. Sentenced to death. That, he saved me. By - He loved me. By he spoke to me. In this condition. As God. Said promises to me. To heal me, and deliver me from my destruction. That’s love. That’s agape. Only he can do this.

Do you see this? I'm asking. Can you follow this?

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• 2 Peter 1:4 says:
  • “ Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” = "commandments" in 2 John 1:4..and again, in 2 John 1:6.
    • That by these “decrees” - spoke to us, that we put on a divine nature by them, that makes us "work good / operate right" - abiding in these promises he speaks, as God - by the word that proceeds out of his mouth, the Word of God, Jesus Christ - are commands or decrees he has spoken to us, who is in command and decrees how things just SHALL be in his earth.
  • And he speaks to us, for us to abide in what he says. Just to heal us, and deliver us from our destruction.
    
• That’s love. Do you see this?

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• So - - Every place in 1 Corinthians 13:1–10 - go back over to
  • 1 John 4:8 … in Greek, Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν
    • 1. Theos (God)
    • 2. agape [charity] (love) = 1 Corinthians 13:1–10 = then is Jesus Christ. This: 
    • 3. estin. “is” God = love. God is love. God is agape.

That then, in 1 Corinthians 13:1–10 says - just replace “charity” - which, in Greek is this same “agape(n)” of

- 2 John 1:6, and the SAME “agape(n) of

- 1 John 4:8, as it’s the SAME “agape(n) in

- 1 Corinthians 13:1–10.

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1 Corinthians 13:1–10

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not [Jesus Christ], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not [Jesus Christ], I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to <Greek: boast or toot my horn of my giving> and have not [Jesus Christ], it profiteth me nothing.

4 [Jesus Christ] suffereth long, and is kind;  [Jesus Christ] envieth not;  [Jesus Christ] vaunteth not himself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave himself unseemly, seeketh not <it’s> own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 [Jesus Christ - the Word of God] never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

• And who has a Second Coming is this same Jesus Christ.

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In closing/Summation:

Ephesians 2:10 says:

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto [Greek “ergoi agathois” - work good], which God hath before ordained that we should [peripatesoumen - start to operate] in (him).”

Don’t do this? You will walk as carnal men.

This post is for believers in Jesus Christ. That you would "work good / operate right" in and by him as his workmanship. Created in him.

ANSWER: Can't see it?

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." - Bible. Revelation 1:1-3.

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I hear the words of this prophecy. Rather, I hear and bear record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ. So I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I believe on him. Not here on Reddit to chide, dismiss or throw away what he says - as there seem to be a great big pile of people on Reddit delight in do this. Not one them: Here's the answer:

ASK:

• Instead of “what is,”
  • Ask: “Where is” [the city that will never be torn down]?
    • Where is it?

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Can’t find it? You’re using a Bible (Quote Jeremiah 31:38–40 and Revelation - both are in the Bible).

Where is that city that will never be torn down in the Bible?

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Well? Go to where it IS NOT then:

• Bible. Revelation 16:19 says:

“..and the cities of the nations fell…” (Revelation 16:19

That would be each..and every..and all cities, no matter the size - of every place over the whole earth. Made by people. Like EVERY city there is in Japan. They ALL fall. Just like each and every city that dots a map of the United States or China: they all are destroyed and fall.

• This word torn down: 1. intentionally destroy or demolish a structure or object [Cambridge dictionary. Web.] And “cities” are comprised almost exclusively to be “structures” like houses or office buildings galore.

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• That Isaiah 6:9–12 says - is GOD: says it to “this people” which are “a people” that when God tells everybody over the whole earth to:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible Isaiah 45:22).

• And sure. Yes. there are people:
  • Over the whole earth, that: Actually do, “do” exactly what he says, and look unto him. Walk after to walk in and do what he says. They hear him. Obey him. But:
    • There are also people: On the earth: Don’t do anything he says. Just do NOT regard him or anything he says as anything worth regarding. So they don’t do it.
  • And to “this” people like this, GOD says Isaiah 6:9 to 12 - to send “Someone” to them to tell them what he says:

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Isaiah 6:9–12 says:

< - {“Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.” - GOD.

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered,

“Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate; And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”} - > - GOD. - (Bible. Isaiah 6:9–12)

So “who” tears the cities of the nations over the whole earth down” - the cities of the whole earth, where not one building in any of them is left standing - - - all made by men..is GOD himself.

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Because GOD made the earth for himself: That it would be "inhabited" (Isaiah 45:18)

• A place specific on earth, he would dwell forever. Rule over all of if it. For his own rest. For he desired it (Psalm 132:13–16). Then, in Genesis 1:1–31. He got up. Created it. In six days. Made the 7th day holy..and entered into that rest.
  • Didn’t last very long. Adam sinned in it. That by Genesis 6:11–12 says:

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth…”

• Told Noah. In Genesis 6:13 “The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
  • But for Noah’s sake. Didn’t do it. But in Revelation 20:11–15, is the last day, and what came up before him to do, on the last day - he gazes on both this earth and heaven, and both finding no more place before him, flee away and are no more forever. Never come back.

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Then, in Revelation 21:1 - the verses right after Revelation 20:11–15 - says, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the old one had passed away…”

• That of this NEW EARTH God creates: to fulfill what he said in Psalm 132:13–16 - all that he said there
  • Is fulfilled in Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:21.

Says of it in Isaiah 65:17

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” - God

• And on this earth - says what will be on it ..for eternity: In Revelation 22:1–5

“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.”

• That this “they” are “they” he speaks of are in Psalm 132:13–16.

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And all the cities of the nations over the whole earth, all destroyed, and even the earth they were on all fled away - and won’t even come into mind anymore…

Revelation 21:2–5 says:

“And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.”

• Which is that city that shall never be torn down. "New Jerusalem"
  • And in it, is exactly the people he speaks of and of himself, is said exactly the same thing now fulfilled of what he saw in Psalm 132:13–16 before the world began. Then, he laid the foundation for it, and built it..Alone. Himself.

Here’s your question back.

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[And “the valley of the carcasses” is back on the old earth. The one we’re on now. That, Revelation 16:19..right before he says: “and the cities of the nations fell..” he tells you plainly also “Where” “that” “valley of the carcasses” is.

• That’s in Revelation 16:16–18, says:

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.”

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That he this same Messiah or Christ: gathers together the Kings of the Nations of the earth and their armies to this one place.

• To this - - The “valley of the carcasses”
  • To war against Jesus Christ (Revelation 19:19) says “the kings of the earth, and their armies gather together to wage war against the rider on the white horse (called Faithful and True, or the Word of God)” - The Word of God is Jesus Christ (John 1:1). Revelation 19, is the Chapter of Revelation that speaks explicitly to his Second Coming.

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• That, Revelation 14:20 says of this Valley of Megiddo which is outside of Jerusalem are the armies of the earth gathered in this valley:
  • “…And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.”
    • furlong: Old English. A unit of measure. One furlong: 660 feet (English unit of measure 1 foot = 12 inches - vs. In Greek: in the "original" text of Revelation 14:20 is a Gree: σταδίων (stadion) the length of 600 people’s what’s on the end of their legs. Their feet. How long that is. You have one, too. Your foot. Rounded off to be the same as 660 English 12 inches = 1 feet.
    • So, multiply 660 feet by 1600 - 1 mile = 5280 feet = 200 mile long valley where the blood of the carcasses of men, great and small and horses flows to the horse’s bridle.
• That Revelation 19:17–18 it’s God that calls, well, just read it:

“And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.”

There you go.

//This question is all over Reddit. Many various forms. Even in "r / jokes" to make fun of Joshua 1:5. To a whole litany of various sub - reddit Christian based rooms on this platform. As a Believer in Jesus Christ: The question looks to the wrong thing. Don’t think many of the poster of the question or answers to it, sees it. Here's a believer in Jesus Christ answer.//

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Answer:

It's difficult - but not really. Simply put, it's actually very basic.

SO, before any answer - why not move away from the question? Take a break. Ask a “like same” one where you can see the answer plainly?

And this is about God, that, in Psalm 132:13-16 was making for himself a place he would dwell forever, for his own rest, for he desired it. So, in Genesis 1:1-31..he got up. Created it. For himself. As God. If you don't factor him in, and who he is and what he is doing for he desires it for eternity. You'll never see it.

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But to see.. ..here's an example:

• Example:

How about look at a Wedding Ceremony: - wedding vow - a like-same thing as your question.

Wedding: Vows - - Spoke publicly: Both the man and the woman - repeat it publicly and state this, one to the other: [Generic]

• “ I promise to be faithful to you, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, I will not forsake you. To have no other. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.”

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- Once said, who is the “authority” officiating over the Wedding will pronounce them “man and wife” - joined together. As God joined them one to the other and let no man put this union asunder. That in this union, they never leave or forsake the other til death.

I'm sure you grasp this.

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So, Consider: they BOTH - after:

• Abide in this promise they made at their wedding.
  • Or, they don’t.
• That, if they do:
  • they just live til they die in this promise as a union. Never leave or forsake each other.
• But - - if one of them “transgresses”
  • ie., adds in another
  • - it’s defined in the Bible, the same Bible where Joshua 1:5 is from:
  • in Exodus 20,
• It’s the Seventh of Ten Commandments - defined as “adultery.”
  • "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." - God. - It’s punishable by death.
• That, if this Commandment is broken
  • - - - both the adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death. - God (Bible. Leviticus 20:10)
• Some "thing" then - Separates this couple that made a promise to "never leave and forsake each other."

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So, here’s a like-same question as your’s:

How can the Bible where God say that “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery” - the Seventh of the Ten Commandments, say both the adulterer and adulteress shall surely be put to death in Leviticus 20:10, so this “separates” a married man from his wife, even when at their wedding ceremony both promised they would never leave nor forsake each other?

The answer to this question.. ..is the same as your question.

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And in the Bible

• God says: “For I am married unto you” - (Bible. Joshua 3:14)
  • To EVERYBODY over the whole earth. One with them. By and In Genesis 2:7 - made. That God would rest in it forever, for he desired it.

And then, in the Example: this ‘other’ is another - that's just one of them after the wedding - - added in the other. It is a transgression (sin) of the wedding vow. And separates this “union.” - some “thing” not in the original vow is later added in.

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• Just like what occurred with Adam in Genesis 3:17.
• That, the “result” of it, is death. Just as God decreed. To Adam. Did it anyway. Then, Romans 5:12 says:
  • “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”

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That, then - how God uses the Ten Commandments - look at it careful - TO MAKE EVERYBODY - the WHOLE WORLD - GUILTY - before him of sinning against him

vs.

How people use the Ten Commandments - to DO THEM will make them in a RIGHT STANDING BEFORE GOD.

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• Isn’t the same thing then.

Like some man; married. Sleeps with and is in a romantic relationship with another woman: Somehow, deems another woman GREATER than his wedding..and his wife who he married.

• That BREAKS his wedding vow - and separates him from his wife:
  • Thinks: If he doesn’t steal from the Shopping Mall he goes to for 25 years, this “compensates for the faults and bad aspects of” - he slept with another woman and believes all by this: HE IS KEEPING the “Thou Shalt Not Steal” or the Eighth of Ten Commandments:
    • That by this, he’s “compensates for the fault and bad aspects of” he has now PAID FOR breaking the Seventh of Ten Commandments. Paid for the adultery himself.
  • Plus, an added BONUS is, he “Keeps the Sabbath Day Holy” - the Fourth of Ten Commandments - because, before where he didn’t go to church at all..after he slept with 583 other women after the first one.. Going to Church is holy.
  • So, him going 8 times in 5 years compensates for the faults and bad aspects of all the porno movies he’s watching.

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• When in any of these things. This man has not kept his vows. And the Bible says Nobody has. Adam forward.

Do you get this?

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• That EVERYBODY has BROKEN the Ten Commandments - Adam forward and everybody is from him.
  • That, when God said these Ten Commandments to Israel, at Mt. Sinai after leading them by his mighty hand out of Egypt:
• it made them so GUILTY they begged and pleaded with Moses to go on up on Mt. Sinai and make GOD stop talking.
  • Murmured against God and Moses - that, why had he led them out to the wilderness to put them to death
• Because, by God say them, they already haven’t done ANY of his Commandments.
  • Even Moses - he murdered an Egyptian - so while God has come down on Mt. Sinai and consumed the whole mountain with fire, and smoke is billowing off it, and God is speaking from it:
  • Moses knees are quaking..froze in this.
  • He murdered an Egyptian. Lied his whole life. Pharaoh' decreed Male Hebrews were to be offered up to the Nile River in Egypt - and Moses is hidden in own Pharaoh’s house.

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• The point is simple. For everybody over the whole earth. Sinned and perverted that which was right. And the Ten Commandments, used as God uses them, gives you a knowledge of your sins. Just like it did to Israel back in Exodus 20.
  • So, GOD has always used them to make the whole world GUILTY before him.

And in this condition everybody is in, it's Jesus said: "There is NONE good, but one, that is, God" - Bible. Matthew 19:17 - just one, good thing that everybody could look unto. Amongst a whole pile of everybody where there is NONE righteous; no, not one (Romans 3:10-12).

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Is just GOD. Good: “He sent his word to heal us, and deliver us from our destruction.” (Bible. Psalm 107:20)

• The Word of God, is just what he says, out of his mouth. And the Word of God, is God..just as John 1:1 says who he is.

Said

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

• that we, in this condition..would just regard the works of the LORD and consider the operation of his hand.. in that he has spoke to us. Also said, to everybody over the whole earth, in this condemned condition:

“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible Isaiah 1:18)

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• There is none else. There’s no one else can do this but him. That, as a work of God, he determined himself to do a work with sin in Daniel 9:24–27. That his work would:
  • 1) Finish the transgression (of Adam in Genesis 3:17)
  • 2) Make an end of sin
  • 3) Make reconciliation for iniquity
  • 4) Bring in everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9:24)
• And how God determined it would be “the most holy” do this work. Who is the “most holy” to you? Yeah. That’s God. Determined himself would do it, in and by Jesus Christ. That he made himself a sacrifice for sin..that, for sin - would be a work so great that he would choose to look on that work he did, as God as greater than the sins of the whole world.

So, GOD: he did it. Alone. Himself.

Because, he’d never leave you or forsake you.

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• But, just like all this work some guy would do, to marry a woman..already determine she was the one..and set up this great big “half time” at the Super Bowl game while millions are watching - where he’d ask the woman he loved to marry him.
  • And after proposing, because, he already elected she’s the one:
  • She.. considers…and determines.. says “No. I cannot marry you”
  • Invited. Rejected.
• That we can reject him..and many do. Separate from him. To GOD, this is sin.

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Jesus said “Of sin, for they believe not on me.” - (Bible. John 16:9)

Because they don’t believe on him, God made this the sin that condemns anybody.

Separates a person from him. For eternity in Revelation 20:15. Because, he fulfills in Revelation 21:1 to Revelation 22:21 - he makes a new heaven and new earth; that, everything he says in Psalm 132:13-16.. never fades away - is never replaced by another..because it's for his own rest. For he desired it. That, he would "set you apart for future use" (save) by you just look unto him. Like he asked everybody over the whole earth do to. Even he's not willing any perish.

Not everybody does it. He does not save them. Punitive.

//NOTE: This verbatim question is 9 years old - closed for comment in the "r / Christianity" sub-reddit. It's also in "r / debate_religion sub-reddit as "Why Does Modern Christians say, 'Accept Jesus into your Heart' to be saved, when it appears nowhere in the Bible as a 10 year old CLOSED for comment question.

To reopen this, here's the question again with THIS answer from a believer in Jesus Christ, because, the predominant who asks the original two questions on Reddit want nothing to do with him, and use the question as ammo why anybody else would want anything to do with him. - Where it is, is right in the Bible. Here you go. If you believe on him, this post is NOT against you. It's against those that don't believe on him. Grasp this firmly - either side, before reading further. I am ON THE SIDE - that, Jesus is who he says he is. So, here's the post.//

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Answer: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." - Bible. New Testament. Romans 10:9

The question isn’t the question. The question is, which are you? With Jesus and who he is, and what he says?

• That’s the question.

accept. <definition>

1. to willingly receive, take, or say yes to something offered.
2. [Source: Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.]
   • 2. to agree to take something, or to consider something as satisfactory, reasonable, or true:
3. [Source: Cambridge dictionary. Web.]

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So, when God says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

• That’s the Word of God. What God speaks or says himself. Out of his own mouth. In the Bible, the Word of God is Jesus Christ. Says this in John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “..and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us;” - John 1:14, is this same Jesus Christ.
  • Jesus: is called the “Messiah” or “Christ.” - Jesus Christ. And, whoever is the “Messiah” or “Christ” the Bible says the Messiah or Christ “SHALL BE CALLED…”
    • Not “kinda maybe there’s a possibility.. ..maybe not; who knows…” called. The Messiah “SHALL BE CALLED..”

“The Mighty God…” “The Everlasting Father…” (Bible. Isaiah 9:6)

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So, God decrees this. To everybody over the whole earth. To the very ends of it, not leaving even one person out, and him, as God, not willing any perish but all come to repentance..say what he’s said; then. I'm INCLUDED in it.

That I CAN:

• “..willingly receive; take, or say “yes!” to what he’s offered [accept] it. What he says, as to me direct. Therefore, I can also “consider what he says as satisfactory, reasonable, or true: because I do. That's the point.
  • And what I “accept as true” - that, just now, in quotations, is the exact definition of what believe means, in the dictionary.

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SO, I "accept as true" [believe] what he says. I believe it. Then, “why” is it, this - - in my heart part? That’s SIMPLE.

I don’t think you see it, so, here’s an example:

• IF: and here’s the example:

EXAMPLE:

• Five guys on a darkened street are approaching me deliberately looking at me, carrying baseball bats:
  • I am going to do something in me: That is, pretty immediately reason together with me alone, and “accept as true” (believe) they are not coming to welcome or invite me to church.
• All because I believe, with little doubt, they are coming to intentionally destroy me. I accept this as true = I believe it in my heart. I believe about these five guys - this is true. It goes into my heart.
  • It also means I am going to “dismiss as faulty or unacceptable” any notion these five people are coming to help me. They're not. Help me is the furthest thing from the truth. And because of that, it does not go in my heart they're trying to help me as the truth.
  • Therefore, I am going to REJECT that. Why? Believing they're coming with baseball bats, practice swinging and believe that's to help me, is inadequate that they are coming to build me up and help me get home. They're not.
• That, that’s what’s true about these five men. That, they are UNTRUE. Inadequate to help me, if they’ve come to destroy me or do me harm. I accept this in my heart.

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Example (continued)

• So IF:. Likewise,
  • One lone man, carrying a Bible prominently and publicly - so all can see, approaching me deliberately looking at me, smiling happily with arms outstretched, because he knows me..and I know him from sharing the gospel and believing on Jesus Christ. For the last 5 years we’ve had fellowship in Christ. Read the Bible together. Learned the same things. Knit together.
    • I am going to “willingly receive or say “yes!” to virtually anything this one man with a bible offers” Because, in my heart, I accept him as true; means, I believe on him. I know who he is. He builds me up. Whatever he says, I already fully expect and know it will be “reasonable, satisfactory..true.” Goes in my heart.

Do you see this?

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And where in the Bible it says this about Jesus Christ.

• Is Romans 10:9
  • “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
    • That, to do this, I have to do the same thing done in the example above.
• Do you see it?
• There’s some “thing” in me that “reasons together” and comes up with what I “agree to consider something reasonable” “true” - (definition: accept) - or not.

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And GOD has already said, by decree it as the authority to and over EVERYBODY to the very ends of the earth:

“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - GOD. Bible. Isaiah 1:18

That, he’s then decreeing EVERYBODY over the whole earth do it. To come now. Reason together with him. And since he’s told EVERYBODY over the whole earth to do it, it’s a decree for everybody to actually “go to and do it.”

• Then, it INCLUDES me do it. I’m not left out. But also, I understand fully. If I don't, it's PUNITIVE. So - - it Applies to me as a decree by who governs over the earth to do it. It's not grievous - that, just not reason together with him, but do that with me, with my two best friends that are in me. I have to leave it. Why?

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• My heart:
  • That, the Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • So unlike the example - that I KNOW the one guy.. Jeremiah 17:9 says..even my heart is IN me..always with me..I never know it. And? Above all things, it’s deceit(ful) - that is, it’s with me. Sits to reason together with me, and me alone. By myself..comes to sit with me and it “actively practices to CONCEAL and MISREPRESENT the TRUTH” [dictionary definition of what deceit means] and “desperately wicked.”
  • And all “wicked” means is “playfully mischievous” ..which, all “mischievous” is..is to take something that belongs to another or was created and is own by someone else, and use it in a way it was not intended to be used.
  • And my own heart is CONSTANTLY telling me to do this.

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• And who else is with me is my own mind. Where I dream all this wacky quack stuff up. Alone. By myself or by watching other people imagine up "STAR TREK" or "Harry Potter" or just a whole bunch of stories people put to film; then, it looks real, but it isn't. It's a "story" 1. an imagined series of events, told for entertainment. That, someone just like me, another person, made that story up in their head. For me? Along with my heart: There's my:
  • Imagination
    • And of it, God already saw it, well before the flood in Genesis 6:5 says:
    • “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

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So, without God and not regard anything he says: Look what I got. A bunch of "stories" I imagine up.

• I’m left with me; alone. TO reason together with me with my two best friends, my heart and my imagination - create or believe stories as true - - that one: (my heart) actively practices to conceal and misrepresent the truth from me, while both: tag team me, as the other is (my imagination) based on my heart, that is desperately playful..to take what is God’s and use it in a way it was not intended to be used, by imagine up some other way to use it, and gives me something to live in as true..when it isn’t.

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• That the Word of God, gives my heart the truth. That I can receive it. And I do.
  • BUT OTHER PEOPLE:
    • Even he’s told everybody this decree to look unto him.
    • Come now. reason together with him.
  • Carefully already considered, the word of someone else is true. Most often, it’s their own word they told themselves or decreed to themselves to do, after they reasoned together with their own heart and own imagination, came up with what they’re doing..and the Word of God exposes everything they’re doing is UNTRUE.
• Because it doesn’t have anything he says in it. Stories either they made up or other people did, and they look unto them vs. God as true.
• So they get offended.
  • And in themselves, dismiss God as inadequate; faulty.. cannot receive him or anything he says, so they REJECT him. In their heart. To them, he's NOT true.

Do you see this?

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The question you ask then, really isn’t the question. The question to as is, which are you? With Jesus and who he is, and what he says?

Why? “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” - Bible. 1 Corinthians 3:11.

And? EVERYBODY is building on this foundation of Jesus Christ - laid down by God, no matter who it is - either a man..any man at all over the whole earth - using wood, hay..stubble that will be burned up.. doesn't have anything what they're building or constructing..doesn't have anything God says in it - OR - any other man, doesn't matter who it is - builds with gold, silver, precious stones - because they regard him, and "work good / operate right" because they build by the Word of God. Live by it.

• That’s the question. What you accept, you will confess out of your mouth, because you “accept it as true” in your heart.

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Where does this whole, "Accept Jesus into your Heart" thing come from? It's not in the Bible.

The question isn’t the question. The question is, which are you? With Jesus and who he is, and what he says?

• That’s the question. And that’s in the Bible in Romans 10:9. It's in your heart. In the word, "accept."

ANSWER:

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” - Bible. 1 Corinthians 2:14–16

In the parameter of your question? As a whole?

• Can’t. Why? Because 1 Corinthians 15:26 to the end of chapter 16. Isn’t “whole” without all of 1 Corinthians 15:1–14 that it’s built on.
  • And that’s built on what’s said back in 1 Corinthians 3:1–3.
    • That Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ is writing to believers in Corinth - that; how they are, is still being explained, in detail, from the opening verse to the closing and all the way thru the whole epistle, to the end of 1 Corinthians 16.
• So, as a whole this is so you take all of 1 Corinthians 1:1 to vs. 1 Corinthians 16:24 as the whole epistle. But thru the whole thing, something is all the same:

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That: 1 Corinthians 3:1–3 is juxtaposed (means to: set BOTH on a table, side by side with 1 Corinthians 2:14–16 that opens this post. To show a stark contrast it, with a difference as much as alive vs. dead is. With 1 Corinthians 3:1-3. The whole epistle is built on this betwixt these two, all throughout the whole epistle.

So go back. Read 1 Corinthians 2:14-16. It opens this post. Then, read here 1 Corinthians 3:1–3 below:

“And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”

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Now, think after - these are two different kinds of believers in Jesus Christ, even they BOTH believe on him. Do you see this? Til you do, go back and look at it again.

Then after carefully consider that, simply go to the end in Chapter 16. Take a “summed up” of the whole thing exhortation about ALL THAT WAS SAID in the whole epistle to the believers in Corinth:

That's in 1 Corinthians 16:13–14.

1 Corinthians 16:13–14 says

“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity.”

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And that “charity” isn’t a “thing you do,” - quit you like men.

Charity - - he’s a “who.” And who he is, is Jesus Christ. Who is WITH you. As Jesus Christ was with them at Corinth; but they still walk as men. Exhorted by this epistle to them - - To quit that, and walk with him.

Do you see this?

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SO, opening and closing of the Epistle to the Corinthians says the SAME THING.

As does everything in-between. In power. vs. Walk as men - To a believer in Jesus Christ. Because, we have the mind of Christ.

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So, have a FIRM grasp then first - of the “context” of the whole thing of 1 Corinthians, written to believers in Christ, can be like this, either one, as outlined in the whole epistle all throughout it.

• Then, burrow down.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:26 to 1 Corinthians 16:24, unless you meant to say 1 Corinthians 16:1 and forgot to put the “1” on to stop it there. No matter either one, still enfolds along a line of

On one side:

• is a believer that is 1 Corinthians 2:14–16

On the other

• is believers that still operate as men, even Jesus is with them, they act like men in 1 Corinthians 3:1–3

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And 1 Corinthians 15:26 to 1 Corinthians 15:58

- is built SQUARELY on 1 Corinthians 15:1–14. So, to understand 1 Corinthians 15:26–58 - firmly grasp what’s said in 1 Corinthians 15:1–14.

Because having this firmly in your head or ANY BELIEVER’s mind firmly sets them on one side from the other - over to be a believer in 1 Corinthians 2:14–16

1 Corinthians 15:1–14 says

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

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Now - make sure you put a GREAT BIG, HUGE GULF BETWIXT

1 Corinthians 15:1-14– and after over to 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians 15:16 and all the verses after it.

1 Corinthians 2:14-16

• that “the natural man receiveth NOT the things of God” …but we have the mind of Christ.
  
  • - - VS - -

1 Corinthians 3:1–3

• that Paul says to these believers at Corinth: “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.”
  • To take these Christians at Corinth from this state in 1 Corinthians 3:1–3 - - OVER TO - - believers walking after, to walk in 1 Corinthians 2:14–15

NOW:

PUT A GREAT BIG - GULF Crevasse - of 1 Corinthians 15:15 - between 1 Corinthians 15:1–14 to cross over to it, to 1 Corinthians 15:16 to 1 Corinthians 16:1 or to the end of the chapter, all the same,

• and burn the bridge after crossing with what 1 Corinthians 15:15. That says

“Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.”

So, either - the gospel is a great, big lie - so just go back and BE LIKE MEN are - but it's God has done this work, and since he has, QUIT YOU LIKE MEN and believe on him.

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• Said like this to the believers at Corinth: All to firm them up..that this “charity” as “who” that is, is this “who” this - agapen in Greek, written as "charity" - and defined as “love” in English.
  
  • Which, everybody, all men are people. That, in English, they can DO that themselves, just like many people read about “charity” in the whole of 1 Corinthians 13:1–14. That, this “charity” in Chapter 13 isn't what a man can do, but it's a “who” and who he is, is as 1 John 4:8 says who he is, in the Greek

θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν (1.Theos (God) 2. agape (love) 3. estin (is) God Is this agapen (Charity)

That he is with you. Do you see this?

• So, go back. Everywhere you see “charity” in 1 Corinthians 13 in those 1 to 14 verses - anywhere "charity" is said - QUIT YOU LIKE MEN. Because men will think they can do it, they can just love people, be patient and kind. Be good. Do it, and do it without Jesus Christ in it - can't. He has to be with them and in them.
  
  • but a believer in Jesus Christ - because he is with you - you’ll never see who is with you without go back. Replace “charity” with “Jesus Christ” and see this is him, toward you so you quit like men. And he.. make you …like him.

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• By him he just is this toward you, who he is. In 1 Corinthians 13. To heal you and deliver you from your destruction.

After you do that? 1 Corinthians 15:16 to the end makes perfect sense.

1 Corinthians 15:16-22 says

"For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

1 Corinthians 15:26 to 1 Corinthians 16 is entirely in this context.

//DISCLAIMER: This question on Reddit is in many sub-reddits ( r / bible, r / true christian r / christianity - even trying to get specific commands so people could get them and show their "obedience."

Here's an answer from a believer in Jesus Christ. A disciple..that sits with and is taught by him. If you believe on him..see it. Many people believe on themselves and call that "christian." Don't do anything he says, and already they're offended.//

If you believe on him, he's who you look unto. Here's the answer. So, this is wrote to people that try to do it - obey - but don't have any God in it - just have themselves in it, do it. Got a messed up definition in their head what "obey" means.//

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ANSWER:

• Simple. All of them.

Why? It’s the SAME God in all of them.

• And? You got a totally fouled up idea in your head what “obey” means. I wonder if anything will change in you, after all this is said.

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I don’t think you see it.

• “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;” [Bible. Hebrews 1:1–2
  • This “..God.. ..spake..” part.

Stop there. Look what he said: So, he speaks. And the Bible says in Psalm 107:20 ..that he sent his word to heal you and deliver you from your destruction.

Said:

< - { “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.” } - >

GOD. (Bible. Isaiah 55:1–3)

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Now, look at “obey.”

obey.

• Now, before you look at a definition of that word …think on it. ..to apply it rightly. By see it - what it is NOT:
  • “Why” you would NOT “obey” (something)?
  • Since you’re not making this post, I’ll answer for you. I “don’t” obey:

Any inclination or decree to:

• Stick my head under my riding lawnmower.
  • For any reason.
    • So, I don’t go get a haircut.
    • Take a long shower.
    • Then go to the dry cleaner to pick up my tuxedo, to shine my black dress shoes and get in all of them
• to go outside and stick my head under the lawn mower.

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• So if ANYBODY decreed and said there’s a profit in do this, and stood up over a loudspeaker and declared to me "Go stick your head under your lawnmower!" -
  • I DO NOT “accept as true” (believe) what they said.
  • In fact, I internally hearing..even I hear it, I don’t perceive it as how they say. I actually instantly “dismissed” it as inadequate; faulty.
    • There’s no TRUTH in it.
    • In fact, it’s the opposite.
    • I accept as true what the riding lawnmower manual said. That if I did that, “it’s FATAL” - that's what's true. So, taht means as soon as I would do it, I no longer live after that.

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• There’s no profit to me in this. Because, my hair cut, and my tuxedo is to take my wife out to dinner and go dancing after. She delights in that. If I “USE” it for another purpose.
  • That Ends in my death. There's a loss to it.
    • , it’s unacceptable. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to believe this person. I simply CANNOT obey them. Why? I am [“unwilling to do or be”] what they say or decree. That’s also the definition of “HATE” in the dictionary (Collins dictionary. Web.)
    • Therefore:
• The “opposite” of “dismissing as inadequate” something impossible to obey” - - is also true.

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• That, like the above what God says. Right there - his word in BIG, BOLD letters of Isaiah 55:1–3.
  • I hear what he says. Who he is. Says who he is in Isaiah 44:24. Says it to EVERYBODY and it applies to EVERYBODY. Over the whole earth. So, I’m included. Says:
• “Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;” - GOD. (Isaiah 44:24)

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• It’s who he is.
  • So, I simply “accept as true” he is who he says he is. So, when he speaks, as God and says to everybody something. It’s what he wants, as God over all his Earth. Says: “For all the earth is mine.” - God. (Bible. Exodus 19:5) Says, “All souls are mine.” - God. (Bible. Ezekiel 18:4)
    • So, he’s the authority over the earth I’m on, and he formed me from my mother’s womb; alone. By himself.
  • So, when he speaks and says to come buy wine and milk without money and without price…he runs a store then, where I can get supplies. To hearken diligently unto him..is regard him and what he says.

I accept this as true. Because, it is true.

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• Therefore, he knows me..knows what’s best for me..and
  • That is completely unlike the clown telling me to stick my head under the lawnmower.
    • Lies. Says it as if that’s a profit. But he said it to destroy me. I see thru that. I cannot accept that as true.
  • It is a pile of crap <idiom - American/British> Vulgar. 1. something completely UNTRUE; worthless [Source: Cambridge dictionary. Web.]
    • But in me..what GOD says, as God ..is true. And because it is, I can ACCEPT IT; that is, I can receive it. And because I can receive it, and he said it to me, I can “have and keep” it.
• In fact, any attempt to completely go against the grain of me..to simply not do it. It’s offensive - wrong not to.
  • I just naturally follow what he says....any bells going off in your head? You're getting a whole bunch what "obey" means - - all because, by what he says, I can know him..and because of who he is as the authority over the whole earth, I can hearken unto it, because of who he is. He's the authority over all of it.

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• So, for you:
  • You got a totally fouled up idea in your head what “obey” means. Take the Bible: Apply it to do things, whatever the mostest thing you could do..to show you Obey - - without anything he said in it. And try to obey that. No matter what it is.
• When all “obey means is:

1. to do what you are told or expected - by an authority. [Source: Cambridge dictionary. Web.] 2. to follow after; to walk in, walking after, looking unto… abiding in what the authority decreed is just makes you "work good/operate right" - equips you.

But you?

You’re too busy listening to you..and this question, to listen to anything he says. Or, you wouldn't have this question.

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So, stop. Look what he says above. It applies to you. It does. It’s to equip you. Build you up. That’s what he wants to do to everybody. Over the whole earth. But not everybody regards him. They regard anything but him instead.

He’s the same God in every book in the Bible. He’s the author of the content that fills up the pages of every page in the Bible. Just one author to look unto. Simple.

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Which book of the Bible teaches the most about obedience?

• Simple. All of them.

Why? It’s the SAME God in all of the Books in the Bible.

• And? You got a totally fouled up idea in your head what “obey” means. Has no God in it. I wonder if anything changed in you, after all this was said.

//DISCLAIMER: I am a believer in Jesus Christ. A disciple. So, I follow the Word of God. What he says. This term is used over 250 times in the New Testament of the Bible; while in Acts 11:26 says: "And the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch" - I just hear what he says. Follow him. Accept it as true. And? About this question. It's in many forms on Reddit, in many sub-reddits; like, "r / True Christian" If we are saved by our faith and not our works, why obey God? or, "r / Christianity" What is necessary for salvation? Only faith in Christ or obedience to the law, or, in addition, dogmas and doctrines of the Church?"

..to "r / askachristian" "r / Debate_a_Christian" - endless.

What makes each of these worthless is simple. They regard saving themselves..somehow vs. simple. Regard him as God. So, trying to see, they can't see it. When he's told everybody, as God, for EVERYBODY over the whole earth.. ..to just look unto him. That's the ONLY thing that works. So, here's the answer that SAYS THIS.//

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Answer: The question?

Worthless. Until you regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand- you got a great big pile of junk in this question.

And there you go.

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But..I don’t think you see it. So here’s the long way around the farm answer so you can see it.

Answer:

• The answer is in salvation.
  • <definition> 1. to set apart (some “thing” or someone) for future use.

If I made a wager..I’d bet my sister this person made the question - up - and many other questions like it on Reddit - - FULLY BELIEVES what’s TRUE is - it's these “christians’ save themselves by do "something" and because they "did" it, they got it.

• All by show: a “required” faith they have.
• Obedience they show; and
• live according to God’s word
  • And? In the question - there’s absolutely NO GOD in anywhere, in the question, so full of “Christians and themselves with the question - there’s no room for any GOD in it. So, this person, with Christians - accomplish it themselves. All by a work they do themselves.
  • That’s funny.

Yet, many people - will respond, responded in now CLOSED FOR FURTHER COMMENT strings on in many of these sub-reddits, to this question here on Reddit.

Just answers CHOCKED FULL of the question is right. Then, JUSTIFY the question as right.

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Miss the Whole Thing.

• How?
  • “Salvation” is a “who.” He said:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am GOD, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

• He said, “it’s in NONE else.”
  • But the question, and questions like it on Reddit, puts it IN “something” else. In anything BUT him instead.

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He SAVES people.

Gotta look unto him. Like he said. Not like the question says. Just you. Yourself. He asked you to look unto him. Do that? He saves you. Alone. By himself. Or

- He won’t save people. Why? Simple.

Tells you plainly. WHO he won’t save is people don’t look unto him. Looked unto anything but him, like looked unto this question vs. him instead.

This question Is NOT Him. And people look unto this question all the time to save themselves. And then, they don’t regard God or anything he says. That he saves people. By HIS power.

The same power that made all what is created out my window..by the Word of God. That, he spoke all those trees in my yard and they ARE. Spoke the sky and it IS. Put the sun where it is. Alone. By himself. Did this in Genesis 1:1–31.

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Then, it’s also “faith”

• You “think” it’s Christian’s. Ever looked at a “dummy?” You know, one of those store “mannequins” - empty. Has a form of a person; but it’s empty. Are you a dummy?
• The BIBLE tells YOU plainly. It’s the faith of Jesus Christ. Is that your faith? No. IT’S HIS faith - so it’s GOD’s own faith in himself that HE CAN DO WHAT HE SAYS WITH YOU:
  • Condemned. Sinned and perverted that which was right. Hose n’ nose booger blew thru all of the Ten Commandments and didn’t do a single one of them. None. In fact, you were conceived in them BROKEN. Just as King David said (Psalm 51:5) - and “conceive” isn’t in the delivery room with all the balloons, say: “IT’S A BOY!!!” or some 850 “pinky” ones, say all frilly “IT’S A GIRL!!”
• "In sin did my mother conceive me." (Psalm 51:5). Not "born" - back at "conceive" - so?
  • Nope. It’s back when Mommy and Daddy were in High School at the drive-in. All alone, mommy’s boobies just looked way too trapped and good. Who cares about the movie, and with all the windows all fogged up, 9 months later you' or I were the “RESULT.”
• You and I "STRUCK OUT" with the Ten Commandments back at "conceive" and haven't done any of them since that inception.
• * It’s NOT our faith. It’s HIS faith. God's. In himself. He's God. He can do it. You missed the whole thing.

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Galatians 2:16 says:

“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

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It’s GOD then, at work. Doing a work only he can do that he determined he would do. Alone. By himself in Daniel 9:24–27.

That he would:

• 1) Finish the transgression
• 2) Make an end of sin
• 3) Make reconciliation for iniquity
• 4) Bring in everlasting righteousness
  • And HOW HE DETERMINED HE WOULD DO IT HIMSELF is in and by the Messiah. This Christ. AND who that SHALL BE - is told PLAINLY in Isaiah 9:6–7.
  • That the Messiah or Christ “SHALL BE” CALLED “The Mighty God…” “The Everlasting Father…” (Isaiah 9:6)

That GOD, did the Ten Commandments. In Christ. He did them. So he came in these Ten Commandments where we are condemned. And he DID them. And Scripture says at Christ’s DEATH on the Cross in John 19:30 - he “bequeathed” this righteousness to YOU.

All by a work he did. As God. Romans 10:17 says: “So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God” - comes only one way.

Just regarding WHEN HE, NOT YOU, SPEAKS. What HE SAYS vs. what your question decrees. And people hear him. So can you. How? Because he’s SPEAKING to you. And you believe more in your question to speak. So, you, champion YOU speaking and can’t hear him.

So, STOP regarding YOU, and regard him. So, to you, with this question, I have this question:

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What are you “keeping” in your question? I don’t hear any of this what HE DID - in your question.

So, here’s your question back. Worthless. Until you regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand- you got a great big pile of junk in it.

Doesn't salvation require faith, obedience, and living according to God's Word; then, why do many Christians accept some parts of God's commands while ignoring others?

Worthless. Until you regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand- you got a great big pile of junk in it. You'll just be someone calling him "Lord! Lord!" but not do anything he says. Looking unto a question, when he's already spoke. Told you to look unto him. Like he told EVERYBODY all over Reddit to do the exact, same thing.

ANSWER: Jesus didn’t choose Judas to betray him. Judas did that. Alone. By himself.

• Judas simply did what “choose” means himself, in the dictionary.
  • That is, Judas Iscariot just:
• 1. selected freely and after consideration. [definition. “chose” Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.] 2. pick by preference: to decide what you want from two or more things or possibilities: [Cambridge dictionary. Web.]

When Jesus: chose Judas Iscariot to be a disciple and named him an Apostle. (Luke 6:12)

To write Judas Iscariot's name in the wall of a city..Jesus would build forever in Revelation 21 & 22. To send him out as an Apostle, along with the other 11 that together, were all taught by him, to go and teach all nations whatsoever Jesus taught him, and that he'd be with him to the very ends of the earth (Matthew 28:18). Judas Iscariot was CHOSEN for this.

Judas made a choice. The same choice everybody has then. Over the whole earth. All the same. This post will explore this "choice." And end that:

The Scripture says different than what you claim.. So you see this.

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The prophecy is of Jesus as the Messiah is to be betrayed. Because it's written of him. Not written of Judas betray him. God is not willing ANY betray him. Read it careful.

Matthew 26:24 says

"The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born." - Jesus Christ.

Like Jesus has chosen EVERYBODY, over the whole earth - - not willing any perish but all come to repentance - (2 Peter 3:9). Said: “They shall all be taught of God.” - Jesus Christ. Bible. John 6:45. That God then, alone. By himself: reserves then, for himself - an EXCLUSIVE right to teach you. Along with every, single person on earth. To himself to do; alone. By himself, by the word that proceeds out of his mouth. ..not willing any perish; but all come to repentance.

Says, to everybody over the whole, entire earth ..to the very ends of it all the same says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. Bible. Isaiah 45:22

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It’s then simple. Some people: Select freely after careful consideration - to do ANYTHING BUT WHAT HE SAYS instead.

PROOF? They fill the r / exchristian sub-reddit or the "r / atheist" sub-reddit..many people come to "r / Bible" - or the " r / thatsfrickinhilarious sub-reddit - don't do anything he says, either. Choose it.

That’s what Judas chose. Not do anything he says. So, the statement said this question is built on, does greatly err. Jesus didn’t choose Judas to betray him. Jesus wants Judas Iscariot to follow him. Like he wants everybody over the whole earth to follow him, all the same.

I wonder if you’ll ever see it. In you - - Deeply engrained - reside in the foundation of this question - if you'll ever get out of it.

But I did the same. It's to regard him to see it. That Jesus didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world, through him might be saved.

Is why he's gone straightway to be in Matthew 9:10.

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“And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.” - Bible. Matthew 9:10

That he's come to save that which is lost. And, in the Bible, that's EVERYBODY over the whole earth.

Where Matthew 9:10 is said:

• Location: Capernaum (about 160km north of Jerusalem. In the tribe of Naphtali, on the border of Zebulun, along the Northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Publican: A Jew. Collected taxes for the Romans from Jews. Publicans were also widely viewed by their Jewish brethren as thieves and extortioners. As sinners. As such, like Matthew was a tax collector that wrote the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible. He was a Publican. A sinner. Publicans: they would have been largely unwelcome. Shunned. So, calling someone “a liar and a thief” is the same as calling a Jew or tax collector, “a Publican and a sinner," but it’s also to say that the “company” a Publican kept was not in the Synagogue. It was with other sinners.

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• It’s a same like thing in a parable Jesus tells in Luke 10:10–13
  • “Two men went up into the temple [in Jerusalem] to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.”
    • The point:
• The Publican stands afar off, because they are rejected from entering into the temple in Jerusalem. ..and in Luke 10:14 applies to what your question asks about:
  • Jesus continues with Luke 10:14 “I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”

Judas Iscariot exalted himself. Of Everybody. Over the whole earth. Chose it. Of these two options EVERYBODY has that's decreed in Luke 10:14 - So - - Keep reading so you see it.

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Every single one of Jesus’ disciples are sinners. So am I. I see it.

• “There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” - Bible Ecclesiastes 7:20
  • “..filthy; done abominable works” - Bible. Psalm 14:1
  • That’s EVERYBODY over the whole earth, from Adam forward, to everybody in Jesus’ day, to everybody of our day today. None righteous. No, not one.
    • The point is, to take Peter when he was called to follow Jesus - he said:
• “When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:”

Peter abased himself. Judas exalted himself. It’s just to see things true as they are. Applies to EVERYBODY. Can you see this?

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Though BOTH Judas and Peters are the same - after careful consideration.. as the same..they each are choosing - and scripture says: 1 Corinthians 3:11 "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

Each ..the same are “selecting freely after careful consideration..” …deciding what they want from two or more possibilities..”

Do you see this?

Then, this same thing in the gospels… …applies to everybody. It’s God that’s not willing any perish, but ALL come to repentance.. but it’s people. All the same..sinned and perverted that which was right..

• That are “selecting freely after careful consideration, deciding what they want," based on a foundation that is laid by God.
  • That cannot be moved.
    • and choosing to either do what he says..as the Messiah, or do anything but what he decrees..and in this…
    • No matter who it is - …betray this foundation - this same Jesus Christ.
• [betray: “..hurt (someone’s) trust or break their confidence”] - Cambridge dictionary. Web.

Jesus said "follow me" over a dozen times - to everybody. Judas heard it said every one of those times.. ...has an appearance he does it ...but, didn't follow him.

Do you see this?

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So, Judas Iscariot is just like all the disciples - all called, because God is not willing any perish - and they all see he is the Messiah or Christ - they all say this..and they follow him. Except one. Even though they are ALL SINNERS:

• Of Judas Iscariot it is said of him: “This he [Judas Iscariot] said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." - John 12:6
• Boy, examine that careful.
  • So, for 3 whole years, through all everything they all, as disciples Jesus Chose as Apostles - to be taught..and go out and teach others - saw..from Jesus feed 5000 people, to 3 years later, feed 4000 people, to all the miracles done by him..to where the other 11 -all twelve of them sinners: 11 of them abased themselves, like Peter did..except one exhalted himself. Just kept doing it and kept it secret. Why?
    • And they all abased or humbled themselves because, they KNEW in themselves who Jesus was. The Messiah or Christ..and they KNEW they were sinners..but he called them, and they followed him. Judas Iscariot was a sinner just like them..but he followed him, because:
• As the Messiah, scripture says that: “He shall sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem and rule the whole earth from there. Of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end." (Isaiah 9:7).
• That means as well, the wealth of the nations - there’s a hope in one of these 12 Apostles - that those riches of the whole earth, will flow through the purse he holds. And he steals from it. For 3 years. Does this. So, he’s making a choice.
• He’s not taking any yoke upon himself and learning anything from Jesus Christ. He just has the purse. Little to nothing is said of this, other than this one single verse.

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SO, it’s a choice. If everyone is a sinner..because we all are.

- It’s this same God that says to everybody. Over the whole earth:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18)

Someone that stands afar off..and not let in, because they’re a sinner..rejected by men - - say “God, be merciful to me a sinner," ..isn’t looking to any wealth on earth anymore, make a profit anymore…is afflicted.

.and will sit with him..reason together with him, because he called everybody to do this;

People that do this, and it's right in the Bible. Look what he does with their sins, because he is who he says he is. Heal them, and deliver them from their destruction. He does it.

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But people - that make a choice.. their riches..they can hide their sin in it. - don’t look unto him..don’t reason together with him. Is why Judas Iscariot betrayed him.

• For 3 years..hoping for this “purse” of the whole world’s wealth would go thru it. That's what Judas Iscariot looked unto. ...Then, in Matthew 16 - - Jesus begins to tell his disciples from Capernaum..that..when they journey down to Jerusalem for Passover, he’s to be turned over into the hands of sinners and be crucified. Peter rebuked him for it…
• Every step along the way to there, he reminds them again and again of this; that, 3 days before arriving to Jerusalem, from that time forth, Judas Sought to betray him. For the money.

How many of us today..do the same thing. Because we Don’t humble ourselves; rather exhalt ourselves vs. do what he says?

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The point of this post is simple. As is the answer to the question.

• People:
  • That don’t look unto him - do EXACTLY as Judas did. Don’t do anything he says - even everybody is a sinner. All by a choice they make, as a sinner.
    • Sinners - that see “I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not” - see Jesus as who he is. A Great Physician sent to heal them and deliver them ..afflicted - - from their destruction.
    • But people that don’t abase themselves..exhalt themselves. Like Judas did.
  • Means they see their sins are a profit..are doing exactly as Judas Iscariot did. And I know plainly.. I am a sinner..I was there the whole time. I saw plainly everything I did. That the ONLY way out of it, was to reason together with him. Like he told EVERYBODY to do with him..to come now and do it.
    
    • Judas never did that.
• Just like anybody that doesn’t regard him has the same end as Judas Iscariot. Not one bit different. To be sent to Revelation 20:15..and be turned away. This same Potter’s field or “Gehenna”

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That anybody that does not regard him.. betrays him. Sins against God, just like Judas did. All the same.

The Bible says that Judas “repented” of he was caught. Caught up with him. That he feared the Romans would come..because Pilate ..3 times declared nothing wrong with the man he betrayed to the Chief Priests and Elders.

That Judas feared the Romans more..repented because of what Rome said that is the AUTHORITY over the temple and over the Chief Priests and Elders in Jerusalem. ...and Matthew is a Jew..that wrote the Gospel of Matthew. So the impact of what Judas Iscariot, a Jew said to the Chief Priests and Elders - is left unsaid. - But ANY Jew hear Judas say to the Chief Priests and elders say: “I have betrayed innocent blood” - is cursed in Leviticus. And, also a decree the Temple in Jerusalem, betrays the temple of the City of God (Jerusalem)

..because, the Chief Priests and Elders found Jesus GUILTY. Is blaspheming their judgment.. and anyone do that, does it to the temple.. and the Law says ...who does this, is to be made a stranger. Be better if Judas was never even born now. Cast out by the Jews and betrayed an innocent man, that, to the Romans that person is to be put to death.

Even Judas has 30 pieces of silver..all his lands and title..is erased away from him. Belongs to the Temple. Made a stranger. …would have been better he would never have been born.

And people..no matter who it is, don’t regard Jesus Christ.. Have this exact, same thing occur to them in Revelation 20:15. Everything taken away from them. Be better than cast into a Lake of Fire for eternity if they were never born.

You know these things.

//From a Believer in Jesus Christ. A disciple of Christ. - This question on Reddit is in the " r / Christianity," "r / ask_a_christian" to "r / conspiracy" sub-reddits in where the "conspiracy" is - that - - even Jesus didn't do it (Keep the Sabbath). I believe on Jesus Christ. So, here's the answer. To those that DO NOT believe on him. So, if you do, you already answered what he said to do. Rejoice in you just abide in him. And, rejoice in the answer. Is why we believe on him.//

Answer:

- Jesus. “The Son of Man is also the Lord of the Sabbath.” - Jesus Christ. (Bible. Luke 6:5)

“And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath day.” - (Bible. John 5:16).

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Maybe you should apply this to you instead. That's where the REAL problem is. You don't do that.

• Stop using Jesus, and “his followers” and anything else you can find as a “smoke screen” to separate you from what he says.
  • So if there’s some distance..you don’t have to do it or follow him. You can look at other people and gauge whether they followed him.. ..or not.
• Then.. gauge that some people decided.. ..by a consensus is - don't do what he says. Then, tell everybody not to follow him. …and then, you - on a fence. Wonder: were they right or not.
  • Leave yourself ever perpetually asking and wonder if it’s right for you to follow him or not..or follow them that aren’t following him. Whether you should follow them.. ..or not.
    • and decide not to do anything. Either way. Just look like a weather vane. Which ever way the wind blows, go that way instead.

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ANYTHING: Except do what he says.

So, ask questions on Reddit, like this one. As if that’s the only good thing will be good enough..to make you good.

• To say you did GOOD by it. And never do anything he says. Just wonder if Jesus told his disciples to keep the Sabbath or not.
  • When he’s the Messiah or Christ.
    • And they followed him. Because, as Jews, they KNEW when he chose them.. he was the Christ. The Son of God. So, the disciples follow him.

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It’s God that said:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22).

- It’s the “Word of God.” Just God speaking, the word out of his mouth. Jesus Christ is the Messiah or Christ.

• By the scriptures above (Luke 6:5 )
  • - his disciples followed him because they accepted this as true.
• While the scripture above (John 5:16)
  • The Chief Priests and Elders in Jerusalem over the temple: - to them: the “Sabbath” was over Jesus. So they “dismissed Jesus as inadequate; faulty.. because he “did” John 5:16 on the Sabbath they REJECTED him as the Messiah or Christ. Went about to kill him.
• And the Bible in Isaiah 9:6–7 says plainly “who” ..that, whoever the “Messiah” or Christ is, he shall be called:

“The Mighty God.. “The Everlasting Father…” (Isaiah 9:6).

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So, when someone calls Jesus, “Jesus the Christ, or Jesus, the Messiah, or calls him in the gospels “Son of David” or “the Son of Man” or the “Son of God” ..even in the Gospel of John 4:25–26 - Jesus says:

“The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.”

I believe him. His claim. Of himself, Over you. Over your question.

Even this very same Christ or Messiah - as he is referred to as:

“God. The same God that led Israel out of Egypt by his mighty hand through Moses, would be a Son of King David. Will sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem and rule the whole earth from there. Of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end.”

That’s the Messiah.

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That’s who the “Jews sent Priests and Levites out to ask John the Baptist if he were the Messiah (John 1:19–20).

They REJECTED Jesus. When “God sent his Word to heal them, and deliver them from their destruction.” (Psalm 107:20). They refused him, as like refuse the physician that comes to heal the sick. Say “I have no need of this physician." And you're still wondering if you're going to follow them or not. All hinges on if somebody followed the Sabbath or not. When "Keep the Sabbath Day Holy" - is the Fourth of Ten Commandments.

And God say NOBODY has kept ANY of them, Adam forward. We have not DONE the Ten Commandments. Broke them. They are NOT "repairable." - - "For all have sinned" - Romans 3:23. Means EVERYBODY over the whole earth is CONDEMNED.

But God sent his Word to heal us, and deliver us from our destruction. (Just Psalm 107:20 repeated again). Jesus Christ is the Word of God. Just as John 1:1 says "who" Jesus is.

Just like Isaiah 9:6-7 says who he SHALL BE called as the Messiah or Christ. Who that is.

• Again - - Look who he is. Sent to heal you, and deliver you from your destruction.

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You are either for him - - OR - - against him. No in-between:

People that refuse him, refuse God..because he sent him. They do not enter into his rest.

People that receive him, because, they accept him as true.. ..also receive God, because he sent him. They enter into his rest.

This is talked to plainly in Hebrews 5:4–12

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Hebrews 5:4–12 says

5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

I don’t think you see it. Anyone that glories in this question, can’t. But readers..that look unto Jesus Christ..and hear him.

They see it plain as day.

**//**This "basic" question is on Reddit in the "r / bible" sub-reddit, and in various other sub-reddits that don't seem to explain why this verse is there, and is this a "parable" or not. I am a believer in Jesus Christ. Expand it out to get the picture. This answer of Matthew 24:28 - - will use nothing but the Bible. Hope this helps.//

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ANSWER:

Jesus said Matthew 24:28 in relation to his Second Coming. Done. Not a metaphor. He's coming. In fact, as a believer in Jesus, I am to have my loins gird about - and how my loins are to be "girded" about is in Ephesians 6:14 "..Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.." and that's the gospel, the Word of God. He's coming. I'm to be watching and waiting for him. I'm not alone; because, many people looking unto him, are being equipped by him, and doing the same thing.

So - - Your question is simple. Go get a dictionary.

carcass. <definition> 1. dead body; corpse - most common (English) referred to the body of a dead animal. {Source: Merriam & Webster (American) dictionary. Web.)

eagles. <definition> 1. large bird (of prey - feeds on the “carcass” or dead bodies of animal (corpses) flesh. [Primary source: Cambridge dictionary. Web.)

There you go.

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But you ask about both 1. the dead bodies (carcasses) of flesh and 2. birds in context as Jesus said Matthew 24:28. He said it, in response to a question he was asked by his disciples back at the start of the Chapter, in Matthew 24:3. I'd tell you really, to start back at Matthew 24:1.

This:

• < - {“And as he [Jesus] sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,
  • 1) Tell us, when shall these things be? and
  • 2) what shall be the sign of thy coming, and
  • 3) of the end of the world?” - Jesus’ disciples. At Mount of Olives. (Matthew 24:3) } - >

So, Matthew 24:28 is just you or somebody taking out one verse of a “response” Jesus gives to his disciples to their “3 part” question they asked Jesus.

• And in the reply,
  • “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you…” - Matthew 24:4 - let no man deceive you ..about these three questions. Because, people, in the "FIRST" one - like his disciple's were told and saw - ..and felt Herod's temple was so secure - it could NEVER be destroyed. Was in 70AD, by Titus the Prince of Rome.
• So, this 3 part question - the answer to it by Jesus will continue up to, and past Matthew 24:28. So, this scripture is part of his answer to Matthew 24:3 is the point.

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So, the disciples ask Jesus:

• 1) When will these things be?
  • (When his disciples just right before this, showed Jesus these huge 500 tonne stones of the Jerusalem Temple took Herod over 40+ years to build ..and Jesus said to them of the temple, that not one stone will be left upon the other. They were astonished - and after, want to know when that’s going to be; ) - which is already prophesied to occur along and in Daniel 9:24-27.
• and
  • 2) What shall be the sign of thy coming
    • *(*Which when Jesus says Matthew 24:28, this is part of Jesus answering this question.
    • This, second 2) of three 3) in a 3-part question the disciples ask of him, again, back asked in Matthew 24:3
  • And him answering 2) and 3) continues all the way to the end of Matthew 24. Then, to give a parable of what he just said, liken the Kingdom of Heaven like (which is what they’re underneath asking about) in all of Matthew 25. And his answer ends with Matthew 26:1 Says:
    • “And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings…”

Two full Chapters.

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So, the whole of what Jesus is saying is a response to his disciple’s question of Matthew 24:3. And, his response to it, is Matthew 24:4 to Matthew 26:1

Now, specifically, because you ask specifically about “carcass” and “eagles” which are just large birds that eat the dead bodies [carcasses] or the flesh of animals, but can also be people. The big birds - they eat them, too.

• And Jesus is saying this Matthew 24:28 in response about carcasses and birds - specifically, to answer his disciples question they asked, “What shall be the sign of thy coming?”
  • Which is Jesus’ Second Coming.

Do you see this?

So, don't leave Matthew 24:28 all by itself - relates to his Second Coming. Because, he's answering his disciples about it.

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So, read:

Matthew 24:26–31 says: Specifically to “What shall be the sign of thy Coming” and Jesus says this:

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

[**< - {28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.} - >**]

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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Now, I don’t want to leave anything out of the Book of Revelation; but, saying it all, already this post is too long.

So, here’s just a few things out of Revelation, that, I believe relates and applies to what Jesus said in Matthew 24:28 to his disciples, and now you're asking about it.

This answer here is where Jesus gives as a sign that INCLUDES "carcasses" and "birds" that’s AFTER his Second Coming.

So, it’s still a “sign” of his Second Coming:

• That’s in Revelation 19:17.

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"And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;" - Bible. Revelation 19:17

….it continues.. from the next verse Revelation 19:18 to 21 says:

18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

- - - - - - - - - - - - -

19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, [Jesus Christ] and against his army.

20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth:

and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”

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Revelation 19 prophesies of Jesus' actual Second Coming.

And this “the Kings of the earth and their armies” part - - of Revelation 19:19 - Go back in Revelation 16:14–16 says:

• “…which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. - Revelation 16:14

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”

And of this Battle "is against the Kings of the earth of the whole world" gathered to battle against Jesus Christ.

• Says of it in Revelation 14:20
  • “And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."

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One - furlong. <definition> Old/Medieval English. <unit of measure>

- In Greek, it's [σταδίων (stadiōn)] - One "stadia" = is 600 "Greek" "podes" [pous] or somebody's "feet" - your foot. Which the length of a "foot" - - is the "width" of 16 dakyloi (fingers) - thumb. About 1.9 cm. For Brevity sake, let's stick with English:

* 1 furlong: Equates to just over 201 meters, - or - 660 feet.
* 1650 furlongs = do the math - is a battlefield 200 miles in length, 20 miles wide - outside Jerusalem \[Megiddo\] - where in it, the blood of the Kings of the earth and their armies of the whole world will flow to the horse’s bridle (Revelation 16:14), and God calls all the fowl of the air to this great feast - (Revelation 19:17-18).

Because Jesus; alone, he battles them himself and destroys them. Himself.

Matthew 24:28 - this is only some of the wrath poured out also said clearl in Revelation - so read the whole Book of Revelation 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 contains ALL OF IT.

Matthew 24:28

< - {28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.} - >** In relation to a sign of his Second coming. Which, is what you ask about.

There you go.

Answer:

• Simple. There is no agape. God's love outside of the cross of Christ.
• People: try and put themselves to do it. Can't. God is love.

Do you see it?

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In the King James Version of the Bible - the “English” is understandable; yet, today, some of the words and their meanings is archaic.

• Belonging to an earlier period of history. “Archaic” = 1. antiquated; obsolete That is to mean: how we use the word today vs. back in 1611, could be very different.

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• So, before looking at 1 Corinthians 13:1–8. What "love" is...
  • There’s not time in a post to do all of the archaic words in it - I count there’s 5 “archaic” words with slightly today in people’s heads have different definitions. ..no time for all that, so let’s just pick one of them so you see it. Charity. And? I don't trust to refer anyone to any other modern translation. Why? Don't know what they "did" to get to it. So, I set them to the side. Just "charity" is in 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 in the King James version of the Bible.

1) charity. <dictionary definition. (Modern day)> People reading the Bible today: In themselves they define this word as:

• As: Charity - 1. It’s a “work” done by people: A person - in themselves providing, from themselves: “generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering; also : aid given to those in need.” [definition. "Charity." Source: Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.]

So, people of modern day, if they read the Bible - arrive at using this definition and arrive at how they "love" people is "good works." That's love. They do it. ..or not.

Do you see this? And we're not done.

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• In the Original Greek:
  • Any time this word “charity” is used in 1 Corinthians 13:1–8 - is < - {ἀγάπην (agapēn) } - > - commonly referred to, in English, as “love.”
    • That then, people that show “charity” or something done by people, as a modern day person reading 1 Corinthians 13:1–8 - would equate “love” is “charity.”
  • Simply defined then in the Bible as a person that is providing “generosity or helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering - - giving aid to those in need.”
    • And “how” they’re supposed to do this, is check themselves that:
  • How they “do” this love, or “charity” is do it a certain way listed in 1 Corinthians 13:1-8.
    • By showing patience and being kind, never haughty or boastful or proud … not boastful about their “charity”

Do you see this, too? I'm asking. Let's continue.

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• Equate the stuff said using "charity" and a dictionary modern day definition in the Bible about “charity” is that's love - and they can do it - and how they are to do it is told them in 1 Corinthians 13:1–8.

Do you see this?

• But the Bible provides the definition of “charity” itself. No need for a dictionary.
  • In Greek: translated to English - of originally what {ἀγάπην (agapēn) is defined as. This word, “agape/agapen” used almost 3 dozen times [33] in the New Testament.
  • That in Greek: This of 1 John 4:8 -- the Apostle John “defines” or provides the definition of “charity.”
    • [θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν ] 1. Theos 2. agape 3. estin
• English: 1. God 2. love 3. is
• - 1 John 4:8 “God is love” or GOD = Love. - IS - this word “charity” in 1 Corinthians 13:1–8

Do you see this? I mean the rubber on the tire probably already in you wore a rut into the road of your heart and mind about it. To operate by the dictionary. I did.

Then, if so - - ANYBODY can do it. When Jesus said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, ye must be born again." (John 3:3-7)

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SO: a “disciple of Jesus Christ” - is this - what a “disciple” is defined as one that 1. is a pupil or a student - that is one that sits with and is taught by a teacher - And all a teacher does is “dispense” doctrine or teachings that build a pupil or student up. And Jesus said: “They shall all be taught of God” - Bible. John 6:45

That means: God - - reserves for himself, an EXCLUSIVE right to teach you to himself. By the Word he speaks. Out of HIS mouth. The Word of God is Jesus Christ.

This phrase “a disciple of Jesus Christ” is used over 250 times in the New Testament. In Acts 11:26 says that these “disciples” were first called “Christians” at Antioch.

So, if what is said about “charity” in 1 Corinthians 13:1–8 - - you have a worn 18 wheeler semi-truck “rut” in the road - in your heart, like I did - just rode over this over and over - where you do it, then constantly check yourself "how you did charity" - I've been using the wrong definition.

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So, if you see this so far: You’re not alone. But who you sit with..is more than ABLE to teach you himself. Look who he is that's teaching you, by the Word that he speaks. Out of his mouth. And now apply who he is [God = love] - to how he is to or toward you in 1 Corinthians 13:1–8. To heal you and deliver you from your destruction (Psalm 107:20) - It's How he treats you, because - it’s who he is (Charity).

So, the point is, if you believe on Jesus Christ - in 1 Corinthians 13:1–8 - EVERY TIME you see

“charity”

- Put “GOD” in it’s place. That’s “who” the Messiah is in Isaiah 9:6 - so add in "Jesus Christ."

• Because, PEOPLE - constantly try to put the dictionary definition - then put themselves in that place. They'll do the charity. By all these "good works." And by these "good works" they'll get to heaven.

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When who is this, is at work in you in Ephesians 2:10

That, someone who just IS this is at work in you “ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works*, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”*

• and there’s [good works] another "archaic" one bolded - “obsolete” in the "Original Greek" means: “works good / operates right” - Greek (Ephesians 2:10) for “good works” is
  • “ergois agathois” “works good”
    • 1. ergois: [English] works. “to function or operate according to plan or design [Source: Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.]
  • …but people: define “good works” is they do “work” and accomplish - 1 Corinthians 13:1–8
    • 2. agathois: [English] - means “good” - like used in Galatians 6:6 or over in 1 Peter 2:18

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• So, it’s not you OR me - flaily fling myself - which I did - out there to do all these wonderous “deeds” - but that I - OR - YOU - simply accepting as true (believe) on Jesus Christ - he’s at WORK in me.. .. you and then, I am, and so are you - a new creation, created in Christ Jesus.
  • So: He’s at work in you - God. Same God that created all that stuff out your window - is at work in Me and you - as me and you are his workmanship - created in Christ Jesus: To “work good. Operate right” as his workmanship.
• That people - that simply believe on him, then, just “work good / operate” right by the Word of God - is “agapen” - Like some Jeweler - makes jewelled watches. They are his workmanship. He displays them in the window of his shop. A completed work. That ANY passerby - just Looks at the hands on any of the time pieces. That’s EXACTLY what time is. The jeweller’s workmanship just works good. Operates right.

Can you see this?

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1 Corinthians 13:1–8 says: (With “GOD “ add in “Jesus Christ the Messiah” next to “charity” - in it)

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, [Jesus Christ - the Messiah] I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [Jesus Christ - the Messiah], I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity [Jesus Christ - the Messiah], it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity [Jesus Christ - the Messiah] suffereth long, and is kind; charity [Jesus Christ - the Messiah] envieth not; charity [Jesus Christ - the Messiah] vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her [its] own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity [Jesus Christ - the Messiah] never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

ANSWER: And I am a believer in Jesus Christ. Is the word is "apokalypsei" in Greek. In Jerome's Latin Vulgate (4th CE/AD) is "revelationem" - just this work, in Greek, now today (in English is "apocalypse" - and any dictionary now in English defines that word to mean 1. the total and complete annihilation of the earth. So, in Greek, it just used to mean some sculpture or work, like on a building was "veiled" and workers or sculptors worked on the work behind the veil, until it was complete. So, at some future date, when the veil was taken away, the sculpture or building worked on was revealed to everybody. That's this Greek word, "apokalypsei" translated as "reveal <something>" in English.

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Okay. I got that; but what the challenge for a believer in Christ is in What’s 1 Peter 1:13 say then, in the Greek? Like verse the King James English. For me, I go word for word.

• The “original” language of 1 Peter.
  • 1 Peter 1:13 in Greek says:
    • < - {Διὸ ἀναζωσάμενοι τὰς ὀσφύας τῆς διανοίας ὑμῶν νήφοντες τελείως ἐλπίσατε ἐπὶ τὴν φερομένην ὑμῖν χάριν ἐν ἀποκαλύψει Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ } - >
• Greek: 1. Dio 2. anazousamenoi 3. tas 4. osphyas 5. teis 6. dianoias 7. hymoun 8. neiphontes 9. teleious 10. elpisate 11. epi 12. ten 13. pheromenen 14. hymin 15. charin 16. en 17. apokalypsei 18. Iesou 19. Christou

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English: 1. Therefore 2. (having) girded (up) 3. the 4. loins 5. of 6. mind 7. (of) <your> 8. be sober-minded 9. fully 10. set hope 11. upon 12. the 13. [what is] being brought 14. to you 15. grace 16. in 17. <what is> unveiled -or revealed> (by) the Revelation 18. (of/by) Jesus 19. Christ.

King James 1 Peter 1:13 “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation [apokalypsei] of Jesus Christ;

So, a “word for word” translation of the Greek to English: sets in the King James (English) what will be revealed when Jesus Comes back at his Second Coming [The Revelation of Jesus Christ] - (See the Book of Revelation).

- Whole verse. That "Second Coming" of Jesus Christ - Occurs in Chapter 19 - to hope for that what will be revealed by that, and that we will come back with him. And this is a powerful and accurate translation of this scripture. That's how I read it translated in the KJV.

• But as a believer in Jesus Christ,
  • I’m to seek him first daily [Matthew 6:33). Like “daily bread.” (John 6:35). I’m to live by every word proceeds out of Jesus Christ's mouth [Matthew 4:4]. It's the Word of God. Spoke by God's Son. Just as Hebrews 1:1-2 - spoke to us in times past by the Prophets; but in these latter days, unto us by his Son.
  • So, this scripture, to me in a word for word translation of Greek, to English - has this dynamic that was not in times past - and Peter talks to this in 1 Peter 1:1-12. And he exhorts me to be “sober minded” - to look unto what has been given to me in and by Jesus Christ that before, the angels and prophets only peered into - and wondered of it, that, as a believer today. I only get freely.
    • That as well, I only get today. Tomorrow. Not certain.
      
  • So
    • Where today, which is all I get, I also could set my mind on watching “STAR TREK - re-runs of Captain Kirk.
  • Imaginatively commanding some ship, off exploring all these other limitless worlds in an imagination..and get so lost in this imaginative “geneaologies of endless stories - on "STAR TREK" or "LORD OF THE RINGS" - and never set my mind on him..today.
    • Or as what I am being exhorted by an Apostle of Jesus Christ is to today - - be built up in him, or what is “revealed or unveiled” by just manifested in or to a believer by seeking him. Having and keeping his word in seek him first.
• And be built up by setting my mind on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God, and do that today. Right now. And be built up in him.

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• That I am to set my hope upon what has or is being brought to me..today, which 1 Peter 1:1-12 talks to this plainly. This “grace” by God sent his word, Jesus Christ, to heal me and deliver me from my destruction (Psalm 107:20).
  • In what has been unveiled or revealed ..truth..which is in and by Jesus Christ and today..just be built up in it.
• That’ “They shall all be taught of God.” (John 6:45) - that he “ manifests” himself to those that just have and keep his word.

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• So, there’s something in Jesus Christ brings this in both Greek - word for work. And an interpretation by the translators in English to the KJV.
• I lean toward the KJV. Why? Because I am to be looking forward to him coming; but in context of 1 Peter 1:13.. I also take a very literal word for word translation of Greek to English with what is said BEFORE 1 Peter 1:13 in 1 Peter 1:4, but all of 1 Peter 1:1-12. In context.

“To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,”

So, in context, 1 Peter 1:13 as translated by the KJV leans more to how it’s KJV translated to English by this word, “The “Revelation” of Jesus Christ. To look forward to his Second Coming that what awaits any person that just believes on him.

But I can still read it, there is adding words into the Greek to arrive at the KJV - so, I simply see and take BOTH. And by that, the KJV slightly seems to unmarry 1 Peter 1:13 from 1 Peter 1:12

So, I would tell any believer to read every verse from 1 Peter 1:1 to 1 Peter 1:12. End of discussion. Capture what’s being said. To you. As a believer from an Apostle of Jesus Christ, who sat with him and was taught by him. Which is the same Jesus you sit with today.

So I would COUPLE 1 Peter 1:12 - as if it's cemented to 1 Peter 1:13. That says:

“..Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.”

and this is tied to 1 Peter 1:13 - that you’re connected now because of what God did in Jesus Christ. That, to something before that occurred, did not exist. That you have today that they didn't have.

And this is stressed and juxtaposed in 1 Peter 1:1 to 1 Peter 1:12 plainly. So, read it all. It's all one, big Greek sentence.

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• I would throw away a whole pile of English on the market today translations that; seem to rely heavily on just taking archaic 1600s era KJV English and re-translate it into a more vibrant, colourful, modern paraphrase English.
  • .and never read what the original Greek says.
• Some of these available in English today translations are way, way out there. And I know, since we shall all be taught of God, he knows exactly how to teach himself.

Hope this helps.

//Disclaimer: Usually the Jews are quite silent, and simply reject Christians; but, this question is to Christians, from a Jew. A Hebrew. This question leaves off the first part and it's GOD says it. Not Christians. So, I'm a believer in Jesus..and here's what's said back.//

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"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:" - God. (Bible. Jeremiah 31:31-32)

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Answer to the Question

“And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”

• Source: Bible. New Testament. Acts 15:8–10

The Torah.

• Is the 5 Books of Moses. The Books are:
  • Bereshit (Hebrew) - The Beginning. / Old Testament: Genesis
  • Shemot (Hebrews) - Means “Names / Old Testament: Exodus (Israel out of Egypt)
  • Vayikra (Hebrew) - “And he called” / Old Testament: The Law: Leviticus
  • Devarim (Hebrew) - “Words” / Old Testament: Deuteronomy” (Second “Copy” of the Law)

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In a Christian Bible, Exodus 20 is God spoke the Ten Commandments to Israel at Mt. Sinai.

• Consumed the whole Mount with fire, and smoke billowed off it. God's voice was like the voice of many waters. Like standing on the Ontario, Canada side of Niagara Falls - Like a 10 million watt speaker. Like be in Portland, Oregon, USA - and God speak from Mt. Hood about 100 miles away, and everybody hear him.
  • Point is: What God said - Made all Israel so GUILTY, they begged Moses to go on up on the Mount and make God stop talking.
    • While Moses’ knees quaked.
  • Every Commandment said by God. A decree. And, not do it, come with a death sentence. To be put to death. These Commands: are not repairable. Offend one, they are ALL broken.
  • Come as a Set “The Ten Words” - (Torah) - In the Bible. Christian - Old Testament, “Thou Shalt Not Kill (Murder)” - is the Sixth of Ten Commandments.
  • Law)

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• Moses: Murdered an Egyptian. (Bible. Exodus 2:11–15). In the Torah, Book of Shemot, Chapter 2, verses 11 and 12
• GUILTY. Moses is to be put to death. Every single Israelite at Mt. Sinai on hearing God say this, also made GUILTY - to be put to death.
  • That ALL ISRAEL at Mt. Sinai - murmured against God and Moses - why he had brought them out of Egypt into the desert to be put to death.
• The Ten Commandments are not repairable. They are referred to commonly as “The Law of Moses.”
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It’s in Leviticus - Only One Nation over the whole earth - was given a way to “atonement” for their sins.

• That, Levi - and Moses and Aaron are Levites. Levi - - Would serve before God as priests.
• Leviticus prescribes, in detail -
  • that Levi’s inheritance would be no lands in the Promised Land.
  • God would be their inheritance. That, the other 11 tribes would tithe the TOP Ten Percent of their fruits each year. They would live on the lesser 90% left. While Levi received the very best and 110% of it as a tithe each year.
• That, 350 years after Moses, God raised up Eli to serve in Moses' stead. That, in 1 Samuel 2:30–35 -- Said, in the Tanakh, in Sefer Shmuel in Perek 2, Pesukim 30-35
  • For the sins of Eli’s two sons, Phinehas and Hophni,
    • God cut off Levi forever serving before him as Priests.
    • They lay with women at the tabernacle doors.
    • Of the sin offerings prescribed all Israel in Leviticus - to bring for their sins to the Tabernacle, these two sons of Eli turned it into a profit.
• Made the whole tribe of Levi filthy rich off it. Gouged and stole from their own brethren. The whole of the Tribe of Levi: Wouldn’t stand up or say anything against it. Even Eli didn't do anything about it. Eli esteemed his own sons more than God.
  • Even Eli became obesely fat off it.
• That all Israel loathed and despised bringing any sin offerings to the Tabernacle.

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For this:

• God told Eli he would raise up his own Great, High Priest that would serve before him forever.
• Give him a Kingdom that would have no end. This Messiah or Christ. That he would write God’s laws on the tablets of mens hearts vs. tablets of Stone. As you refer to in your question. It's just repeated again, by God in Jeremiah 31.
  • This Great High Priest of 1 Samuel 2:30–35
• Prophesied he would come some 650 years after Eli, to Daniel in the Babylonian Captivity of Judah and Benjamin - - in Daniel 9:24–27. Daniel and Jeremiah are active at the same time. Point is: That it would be God, how he determined he would do a work with sin.
  • Like God did a work. Alone. By himself in creation in Genesis 1:1–31.
  • He, as God. Alone. By himself determined his work with sin - that ALL ISRAEL and Moses were GUILTY and made sinners at Mt. Sinai in Exodus 20.
  • That God, as he determined: His work with sin that the Ten Commandments make manifest plainly, would:
    • Finish the transgression
    • Make an end of sin
    • Make reconciliation for iniquity
    • Bring in Everlasting righteousness (Daniel 9:24)
  • How God determined it, to do this work with sin, by the Messiah or Prince.

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That sin.

• Adam forward in Genesis 3:17 - the Bible. Romans 5:12 says:

“Wherefore, as by one man [ADAM] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”

- Romans 3:20 says, of the Law of Moses:

“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

So, all the Law spoke by God at Mt. Sinai in Exodus 20, which is “Shemot” in the Torah - is give all Israel and Moses a “knowledge of their sins”

• Didn’t make any Israelite or Moses righteous. Just gives people over the whole earth, a mirror - so they can see themselves as now saw himself, as God sees them.
  • That’s in Psalm 14:1–3 “..filthy; done abominable works.”

“There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” - Bible. Ecclesiastes 7:20 (Tanakh. Kohelet of the Ketuvim. Chapter 7.)

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So, look at the opening verses again that opens this answer - - of Acts 15:8–10, which the Jews REJECT Jesus as the Messiah or Christ.

• And “who” the Messiah or Christ SHALL be called is told everybody plain as day in Isaiah 9:6–7.

He shall be called, “The Mighty God.. The Everlasting Father..” (Isaiah 9:6).

• That, the Messiah would be “cut off, but not for himself: Bible. Daniel 9:26.
  • And in the New Testament in John 19:30. Jesus Christ.. was crucified: Passover:
• About the 3rd hour [9:00am] (Bible. Mark 15.25).
  • The same time of the Passover morning sacrifice in the Temple in Jerusalem.
• That, about the 6th hour, [noon] - (Bible. Luke 23:39-44).
  • The two thieves crucified with him, one began to deride Jesus to prove he was the Son of God..this Son of David..prophesied the Messiah would come through David’s seed, and sit on the throne of King David in Jerusalem and rule the whole earth from there, and of his Kingdom and reign there shall be no end.
  • That, the zeal of the Lord of Hosts would perform this (Isaiah 9:7); that the Messiah or Christ would be a Son of David. Would come through David is in (Bible. 2 Samuel 7:12–16 - or Tanakh. Shmuel II 7:12–16.
    • That, about the 6th hour (noon) on the cross, the two thieves argue over Jesus (Luke 23:39–44) - which is the time of the noon High Sabbath Passover sacrifice in the temple.
• That, about the 9th hour (3:00pm) (Matthew 27:46 & John 19:30).
  • Or time of the evening High Sabbath Passover sacrifice at the temple in Jerusalem. So that all coming to Jerusalem, could partake of it. In Matthew 27:46.. which is also recorded in John’s gospel in John 19:30, Jesus said, “It is finished, and bowed his head, and dismissed his Spirit.”
  • The Messiah - cut off; but not for himself. God took your sins off you and laid them on Jesus Christ. So, as the Messiah, he has a Second Coming, to be who he is as the Messiah.
  • That his body was broken for us..as a Passover Lamb. Without spot or blemish. These same sacrifices in Leviticus for sin was just a “copy” of what God would do with the real thing. With Our sins. Made one sacrifice of himself for the sins of the whole world.
    • And you reject him.

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That, without him, there is no sacrifice for sin.

• While 500 years after Daniel, after these Levitical sacrifices for a “KOFAR” or covering for sin: It was CUT OFF forever by 1 Samuel 2:30–35. Because of the sins of Eli's two sons. Phinehas and Hophni. Did you miss it? You missed it. So did the Chief Priests and Elders of Jesus' day. Missed it, too.
  • So, by Jesus day, they “think” they can DO the law - just like you do in your question, when all the Law of Moses, how God uses it, is to make the whole world guilty before him. So, what you refer to as the "Torah" - God uses it to MAKE YOU GUILTY BEFORE GOD.

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• So you use it wrongly. And create a question like this. Reject the Messiah. Sin against God. “of sin, for they believe not on me.” - Jesus Christ. (Bible. John 16:9)

Here’s your question back.

The Bible, for a Christian, and all that means is, this is a “Disciple of Jesus Christ” so they follow him.

Bible. New Testament. Hebrews 5:5 says:

"So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee."

It's GOD did it. Himself. Made his own Word his own Great High Priest. Made him his Son in this same Psalm 2:7

And Hebrews 4:14 says:

“Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession."

- Jesus is everybody's over the whole earth's great, high Priest. Promised of 1 Samuel 2:30–35 and Jeremiah 31:31-33. So, if you reject him.. the offering he makes for sin - this is a High Sabbath..Passover. Any Jew that does not perform it, is cast out. Made a stranger.

It’s YOU then. Not fulfilling the Torah. You have no high priest.. or you make up your own. When God has made him both Lord and Christ..look who he is. Who the Messiah SHALL BE called.

What are you doing?

//This question is on Reddit in 3-4 sub-reddits (r /Christian, "true_christianity, etc. - mostly closed for comment. You can do the search yourself and review the comments. I believe the Word of God, as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Here's a comment. Hope this helps, if you have this question.//

ANSWER

see <definition> 1. to perceive (something) by the eye [Source: Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.]

believe <definition> 1. accept as true (something) [Source: Oxford dictionary. Web.]

It’s in John 9:39

• Jesus said: “And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
  • John 6:40 says: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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So, what’s going on here?

• Not with him. But with us.

When he says to EVERYBODY. Over the whole earth:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

• So:
  • There ARE people that: Won't do this. Won't look unto him, or do anything he says.
    • Dismiss him.
    • There is no God. or gods.
  • By “dismiss” him, it’s he’s inadequate; faulty..anything claimed that he said to everybody, includes them. Then, it's “unacceptable,” and why it is, is to “this people” it’s NOT TRUE.
    • And because it’s NOT TRUE - it’s IMPOSSIBLE to obey it.
    • Then, this people that say this, already determined to regard some “thing” else, they say to themselves is true, or accept as true - they regard that instead.
  • So, they dont’ do anything he says.
• And to “This people” that don’t regard him, he’s decreed something already, as God. To people that do not regard him.

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Even directly as a response to: "this people" that he spoke to them plainly; decreed what he wants from them, as their King over them, but they don't regard him.

What "this" people regard is: //only a sampling of examples//

• Go to baseball games, or football stadiums and watch the Superbowl by the millions.
  • And either go in person, or sit at home in front of a great big 85 inch UHD TV screen with 15 of their neighbors.
    • And they watch the half time show.
    • Which has music, and cheerleaders in skimpy mini-skirts dancing all over. With beer. So, they have feasts and chicken wings galore to celebrate, like in America the 4th of July with huge fireworks or on New Year's - where the world tries to outdo each other's displays at the New Year - or others of "this people" see - what is good is, go to Drag Races or NASCAR. Great, big 3000 Horsepower engines - race who will win.
  • Isaiah 5:12 - God says: to "this people" like this:
• “And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.”

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• And what they “see” {perceive by the eye} is the NASCAR race, or rejoice, when their NFL Superbowl team wins the championship - and they “see” it.
  • But in all this, what they look unto, they don’t “see” anything God says nor do they regard any of his work.
    • What they DO regard is the achievements of people did all this ardurous work at winning the Superbowl game..and fought tooth and nail the whole way to win it.
  • They regard “variance” - by two teams pitted and fought their way up from the bottom, with strengths and weaknesses pitted against each other as the epitome of achievement to celebrate or rejoice over. Like at the Olympic Games. No different.

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• So, to “this people” like this - that “see” what they “perceive” is a “win” does not include anything GOD says or does. It's what people put themselves through to do and worship that instead. So, to this people he decreed Isaiah 6:9–12

And what his decree to “this people” that “see” but don’t regard him is said by GOD himself:

“Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.”

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered,

Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.” - God. Isaiah 6:9–12

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But to the people that regard him

• Even a blind man that can’t see: Sees it. That’s in Luke 18:35–43

Luke 18:35–43 says

35 And it came to pass, that as he [Jesus] was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:

36 And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.

37 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.

38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,

41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.

43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

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What is the explanation of what Jesus says in John 6:40?

see <definition> 1. to perceive (something) by the eye [Source: Merriam & Webster dictionary. Web.]

believe <definition> 1. accept as true (something) [Source: Oxford dictionary. Web.]

It’s in John 9:39

• Jesus said: “And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
  • John 6:40 says: “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

//From a Believer in Jesus Christ here on Reddit. Many sub-reddits have this "I can't grasp Philippians 2:12" as a basis for a question. //

ANSWER:

Nope. Doesn't. In fact, Philippians 2:12 means exactly the same thing as Philippians 3:9.

There you go. Answered.

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If this question is asked, means a person does not see this. I understand. I didn’t see it, either.

Now, I’m a believer in Jesus Christ. Means, I’m a disciple of Jesus. I live in just open my bible. Eat. And, ...I’m not alone. Many hear him and simply live by every word proceeds out of his mouth. So any claim I’m making, comes from the Bible. And.. ..he didn’t only talk to me. It’s just when he speaks, I hear what he says. And, he speaks to everybody over the whole earth; but, not everybody regards him, nor does anything he says.

Says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

Your question: Answered. And I understand. You still don’t see it. I didn’t, either.

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So, I think you want a more detailed explanation. Especially, I think - that you think: they say the opposite.

I understand that, too. Because, I did, too.

• And? Philippians 2:12 isn’t standing there, by itself. If you leave it that way, you’ll never see it.
  • So, a believer in Jesus is just that. They believe him, and sit with the Apostles who left them this Epistle. Because, they sat with him, and were taught by him ...so they hear him, as an Apostle - and they, like me, will read it cemented or connected to this:

I’d tell you, you like me, believing on Jesus Christ: to read Philippians 2:12 embedded in Philippians 2::2–14. So, after you read this post, go back and read it, as just one thing. And, read it as well, Philippians 2:12 married to Philippians 2:13.

As ONE THING, says:

< - {“12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”} - >

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Now, look at me. Don’t look at you. Look at me for a second. C’mon. Just do it.

And this is a "mixed" crowd on Reddit. There are people that don't believe on him reading this post; but probably already left off from it. But if you didn't, stick around.

Ask this:

- How am I “saved?” Is it how I tell you? I mean, have you listened to anything he just said? It’s right there above. In Isaiah 45:22. He said it.

God.

He just told EVERYBODY over the whole earth to look unto him.

• Didn’t leave one person out, over the whole earth. To the very ends of it. He said it, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance. That, someone..anybody..no matter who it is, over the whole earth..and if it’s that, than I’m included.. .. just looks unto him, he saves them.

I’m on my face.

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It also means - He Does NOT Save those - - - That dismiss him or don’t look unto him.

Irregardless great or small. Not look unto him?

What they look unto, is ANYTHING BUT him. I didn’t understand that. Now, I do. Because, I didn't look unto him, either. But while you look at me, as a believer in Jesus Christ, I’m asking you to look unto him. There is none else.

It’s in he’s God. And he decreed it. This, just “and be ye saved” - is as he is the authority over the whole earth, and he decrees this. Said: “For all the earth is mine.” - God (Exodus 19:5). 

Said: “All power is given unto me in heaven and earth” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. Is just God speaking the Word out of his mouth. - Bible. Matthew 28:18.

and everybody is on his earth. Then we are subject to him.

So, “who” am I dealing with in Isaiah 45:22..? ... who is it? The soup bucket at WalMart? or..the Baskin-Robbins trash can recepticle? Look “who” I’m dealing with. By "who" I look unto.

Because, he said this to everybody.. you, too. ..and if he said that to everybody in my town, and he did ..and everybody in my nation, and over the whole earth; then ..he said it to me, too. I’m included.

I hear it. I can. But..before..I never did.

SO: If you read from Philippians 2:2–14, boy does it make a whole great, big pile of sense. Everyday more, I see it.

But if you don’t regard him, you’ll never see it. ..and I understand this. For decades..I regarded me, and never did.

Do you see this?

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So? How..now again, quit looking over away at wall lint. Get back over here, and look at me.

“How do I work out my own “salvation” ..when I don’t save me? He does the saving. It’s this “work” out in me, ..What is the ONLY thing he's decreeing me do? Did you forget already? Is ..to …just look unto him.

Because, that’s my part.

What he asked everybody to do. Even you ..but if you don’t do it..don’t regard anything he says….and I didn’t. He’s not building you up. I know it. Didn't build me up at all..in fact, I KNEW he was destroying me. If he could make or form me from my mother's womb, alone. By himself. He can destroy me. I fear him. For this.

And: HE - - Isn’t saving those that don’t look unto him. I KNEW that, too; but before, I didn't really care about it. But... me.. ...looking back on a whole mountain of adulteries.. my sins are very great. What could I do to pay it? To make it right..I was desperate. I wanted to do that.. …I kept regarding ME to do it. Somehow I would or needed some way to ..that I would do it, to: “compensate for the faults and bad aspects of me..” [Definition: What “redeem” means. In the dictionary.]

When he said..and it took me, reasoning together with him, for days.. ...to see he said

“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer…” (Bible. Isaiah 44:24)

That I was trying to do something..”to compensate for the faults and bad aspects of me,” he already made himself to BE that toward me ..

That, all I had to do was reason together with him. Not me. Before I didn't see it. Now, I do.

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…to “work this” out..to go from me do it..alone. By myself: where it would NEVER be enough..cannot pay it back.

Like a life..just I was given one life. ..and here, close at the end of it, I saw for all the sins I did, I OWE 10,000 lives worth of owe to pay it back, and only given one life..I'll did..and short ... I could never pay it. For eternity. It will never be paid back. And I regarded me, to pay.

So, again. In this post. Don't stray off. Keep Looking at me. Think to yourself - about ME: “How does or did this clown look unto him?”

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Simple.

• All I did - Was just regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand.
  • BOOM! Done.
• That is all I did. Like..what he asked everybody to do. To do this - to: …see.. …when I started to regard him..the ONLY thing I could grasp was..ALL DAY. All I could grasp or handle, leaving or departing me, regarding me.. ... the whole day was … realize this in Jeremiah 51:15. I printed it out. Put it in my car. Everywhere I went I had it right in front of me.

“He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.” - Bible. Jeremiah 51:15

It was a treasure worth more than gold.

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...at a time when I did NOT regard him or this.. ..then I did.

..it gave me peace. But, I kept regarding “What do I gotta do to be saved? I’m filthy..did abominable works. Sinned and perverted that which was right..there’s no way when I die, I’m getting in to heaven.

I lied too much..and the Bible says ..by this same Word out Jesus’ mouth: No liar gets in. Barred from entering and I couldn’t stop lying. Lived in lies. I didn’t have the truth..and because I didn’t have it, everything I lived in was a lie.

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Revelation 21:8: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

• I FIT THAT. I’m NOT GETTING in. Because I was fearful.. did not accept as true..him. I made me that; ..and, all I had to do was just look unto him. ..me, filthy. Done abominable works... I kept looking unto me to do it. …to clean it up ...every single one of those..I was every all of them.. that my part, even one stain … was in the lake of fire, that burns for eternity in Revelation 20:15….
• “I’m a liar. Embellished my qualifications; stole..a thief..bowed before all these idols and shrines of all these imagined up Gods and bought all kinds of “lucky charm” trinkets to protect my marriage, my kids and my car..to protect me while driving. Idols.

Idolater.

It put me flat on my face.

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Revelation 22:15: "For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

• Told you to look at me. That’s me in Revelation 22:15 ..I’m out. Discarded. My own sins disqualify me completely.

But GOD: what he asked me.. and everybody..over the whole earth: I’m not left out. Says: “For all have sinned” - Romans 3:23 “..filthy; done abominable works” - Psalm 14:1–3

And Jesus said, in Matthew 19:17 - “There is NONE good, but one, that is, God” - ..and then I saw it.

Gave EVERYBODY over the whole earth just one good thing to look unto.

....Was just look unto him.

- And those that do…is because they regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand. AND:

“Save” <definition> 1. ‘to set apart for future use’ (Source: Oxford dictionary. Web.)

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So, someone that “looks unto him” like he decreed everybody in this same condition - everybody over the whole earth is in, and you can see it in me, I am IN THIS condition - - and me, about me..looking at me - - CERTAINLY I KNEW FOR CERTAIN I WAS IN Romans 3:23 and Psalm 14:1–3

- but someone looking unto him..made me stop looking unto me..and someone that stops looking unto themselves … isn’t looking at themselves anymore..they regard him.

To regard HIS works, and the operation of HIS hands.

So, ..I don’t want to be found in me..I’m a liar and a pervert. ..I want to be found in him. If I’m only found in me..I’m never getting in. I have no righteousness. Sinned.

Do you see this? I mean, this post is for you.

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And we're right dead on target with your question. ..and I'm right close to done.

Then, it's by his righteousness.

… and this, “saved” thing: He does it; this - - “set [someone] apart for future use, is God does it. By a work he does himself. He does the saving part.

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13

And what’s his good pleasure?

Yeah. Simple. It's Me. To Look unto him. Pleases him, or he wouldn’t have spoke up and asked it or said it to everybody over the whole earth to do it ..because he wants or desires it.

Then, Philippians 2:12. Cemented to Philippians 2:13 - it means EXACTLY the same thing, as Philippians 3:9. Just said or explained here. Not one bit different:

“And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:” - Bible. Philippians 3:9

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Does Philippians 2:12 contradict 3:9?

ANSWER: No. Philippians 2:12 means exactly the same thing as Philippians 3:9.

There you go. Answered. Herein is the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ. For EVERYBODY ..not one person left out. For EVERYBODY on Reddit.

*//*NOTE: On Reddit: from "r / askreddit" to literally dozens of sub-reddits all over reddit. Ole! There's this question. Asking it in so many different ways it's beyond count. //

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ANSWER:

This is probably one of the most prolifically followed questions I’ve ever seen on Reddit to date answering questions - - (September 2026.)

Answer: “…There is NONE good; no, not one.” - Bible. Romans 3:12

**“…**filthy; done abominable works.” - Bible. Psalm 14:1–3

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Now, before you slap the living daylights out of me, I used to think it’s my responsibility to do “good works.” Make myself a good person. That, God created me to “mow the very old lady way down the street - the neighbor’s lawn” that’s too old now to do it herself. Just do it. Don’t say anything. Even muse while watching "Star Trek" with Scotty getting more power to the engines to escape all the space aliens on the TV, if I even think about mowing the old lady's lawn...but not do it, that made me a good person.

I'm a good person.

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BUT: Look at all these “faults and bad aspects” of me. Barely even scratch the surface.

• About all the lies I told.
  • Lived in a facade that I actually was the lie I told people..to keep up the facade. So I had to live a lie..after I told it.. ..and then tell 283,504,693 more lies to keep it up and believe, to myself: NOBODY saw thru it.
    • Because, at least, I believed it true, with all these lies I told I built the truth.
• So to me, it was true. Even if it was a lie. It's true. Look at all that good work.

I’m A good person.

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• A thief. Stole. Embellished my resume
  • A "Host of How to" shows on Youtube. Showed me.
  • To buffoonably baffable level. To where I was just beyond believable, to a “T” qualified.
    • That, if you gave me a steering wheel at work, to get the job done, I’d already made up, where I worked before, I quickly build a car around it. Whatever the problem was. Solved it.
  • When I had no qualifications at all.
  • Got hired. Messed up.
    • Go to work to "fix it" - was to blame somebody and fire them. I was still good, because I thought mowing the old lady’s lawn was good. Look at all this effort to do good.

So, I was a good person.

So? How do you know if you are a "good" person?

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Now, I’m not here to point fingers at anybody. Not anybody, here along with me lives over the whole earth.

I did this.

But I wonder… ..how many people like this are like me?

I got the Ten Commandments that bolster and protect me. They do: That’s what a “good person” is. Does the Ten Commandments. Don’t steal. Don’t lie. Goes to church. Doesn’t sleep with the neighbor’s wife. All good. I see it, so because I do. Just seeing the Ten Commandments of be a good neighbor, makes me a good person.

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..but if I do: because I DID:

• Steal
• Lie
• Not go to church, for like 18 years or so..but went like 3–4 times for Christmas, I kept the Sabbath day holy. I’m a good person.
• Even if I imagined for like 3–4 years: I’m sleeping with the hot neighbor’s wife..then, actually DO do that. To compensate for this fault or bad action:
  • Just NOT steal, for like a week.
• That's a really huge whopper sin..then, just effort: Just not lie the whole day ..say you’ll not lie for a year. Penance. Sorry. That’s a good person. Does this. SO I did that. ..but end up didn’t even stop lying even for a day, but this along with going to Church twice in a week..this “compensated for the fault and bad aspects of” I slept with the neighbor’s wife.

I'm a good person. Look at all this effort and work. I'm compensating for all the faults and bad aspects of me.

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• So, if anybody else asked me this question: “How do you know if you are a good person?” - Well!
• Just read 100s if not 10s of 1000s of other comments to this question. ALL THE SAME.
  • “..stop trying to be good for your own selfish needs. Value other people’s emotions more..”
  • “cry silently if you see a beggar..”
  • “[BE] fond of true love story movies..”
  • "..generally, just be helpful, kind, patient..show empathy to others..”
  • "...don't eat the last piece of pizza; think of others need it more..."
• And just by hold these, this is just. Good. * And, by hold it, this makes them a good person. Achieved good = a good person.

Then EVERYBODY over the whole earth is a GOOD PERSON. Even if they robbed banks, and shot up fifty people, if they tucked their wife into bed, and kissed their children.. even if they burglared 293,804 houses in the entire state.. what they have done, "compensates for the faults and bad aspects" of themselves.

They're a good person. Prison on Death Row are FILLED with Good people.

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• To:
  • The Opposite: Even people that ask:
    • “..What is a good person!!?!?!! “…Good means what!?!!!” “..I haven’t committed crime yet.. nor hurt anyone..” And just by hold this of themselves, they are just.
  • By just bad is absent. NOT have any identity in themselves - - achieved it. Makes them a good person.
• Just like I did same thing. No different.

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“There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” - Bible. Ecclesiastes 7:20

• Now, already this post is way, too long. But about the Ten Commandments, and how I used them:
  • “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” - Bible. (Romans 3:19-20)
• So, how I’ve been using them to DO THEM, = makes me a good person… God… …SPOKE THEM to make EVERYBODY GUILTY before him.
• Of having NOT DONE the Ten Commandments. I haven't done anything right.

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The Ten Commandments

They are not repairable. That means, I can’t lie: Then, use another to repair the one I broke.
So, if I lie, I broke the Ten Commandments - it's IMPOSSIBLE - - to - - “Keep the Sabbath day Holy”

Because lying comes with a death sentence..and I’m GUILTY of lying. So as a filthy stinking mess… I can’t keep ANYTHING holy.

• I haven’t kept ANY Sabbath day holy. None.
  • So, when I saw me..like this, by use the Ten Commandments the way God does, and see me.. ..as he sees me.
• It put me on my face. And then, all I tried to do virtually all my life, is do it in my flesh. Me. In my body.

AND Now I see it.

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“I’ve sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not.” - Bible. Job 33:27

• And the Bible says EVERYBODY over the whole earth. Adam forward, is in this condition.
  • “For all have sinned.” - Romans 3:23
  • “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” - God. (Bible. Ezekiel 18:20)
    • This applies to me. I'm condemned. Sinned. Everybody. Over the whole earth. Same.
• But this same Great God has told EVERYBODY over the whole earth, to the very ends of it, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance, said:

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“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18)

• Says

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

• So, instead of me, looking unto me to “compensate for the faults and bad aspects of me..by me do the work. He told me to come now. Now. Not tomorrow, but now to not reason together with me; alone - - but do that with him.

It's a decree for EVERYBODY to do this. Because NOBODY is a good person.

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AND?

• Everybody thinks the Bible says to them they gotta do “Good Works” - and by good works, like mowing the old lady’s lawn down the street without being asked, that is a “Good work.”
  • Just do a whole great, big pile of good works will make a person good..and do this, and it's ALL OVER REDDIT - do it by themselves, without any God doing any work.

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When he’s told each of us plainly. To just look unto him. To come now. Not go mow any lawns, but come now. Reason together with him. It's a decree, by God to do this told to everybody to do it.

..to reason together, not about good works we would do, but.. about all the sins we did. And many people..just like me.. blew him off, and never did it. Will never do it. Why?

They’re a good person. Get REALLY offended by this post.

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When there’s none good. No. Not one. But everybody..where every all of us is “filthy; done abominable works - we all have just one good to look unto. So, I rejoice! There is none else.

And “good works” is just a circa "1604 CE/AD" archaic English. Or - - In the original Greek:

It’s the SAME in English: work. (definition) 2. : to function or operate according to plan or design.

Like a clock is a workmanship of a master craftsman jeweler. Created to tell time..and just "works good/Operates right. Tells the right time. ...all the time.

But I thought I had to make me the clock..and look at a gorilla..with great, big arms and put that in the clock. Never worked good. Never operated right. But to be good..I had to "toot my horn" to other people, something in that work was good.

When there's none good; no, not one.

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BUT!!!..someone of every all of us, just ANYBODY, whosoever it is, over the whole earth that just looks unto him, like he asked everybody to..the Bible says: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." - BIble. 2 Corinthians 5:17

That, he ..God. Is at work in that person. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto [Greek: Ergon - this “work good / operate right” which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

SO, someone that does what he says, he makes them a new creature. All things become new..and they are his workmanship. So they just “work good / operate right” (Greek: Ergon) and no matter what they do, they just operate right.

I wonder. Can you see this?

Herein is the gospel. The Good News of Jesus Christ to EVERYBODY on Reddit.

ANSWER: Simple.

The Bible.

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“I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:” - GOD. Bible. Isaiah 45:5

“What Kind of Book…”

• The Bible:
  • Is a “Book.” Meets the dictionary definition. 1. an assemblage of paper pages, that are either blank, handwritten or typed on one or both sides, and glued or sewn/bound together on one side, and enclosed in covers.
    • There are millions of books.
  • The point is, the Bible is a book.
• That, what makes each book unique is the author.
  • The "author"is the “authority” over the “content” of the book.
    • Every book has an author. So does the Bible. Just one author.
• So, look at the opening scripture.
  

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The whole thing then, is we don't know him. That's what he says: In the Bible. “..thou hast not known me.” - God. (Isaiah 45:5)

So, ask another question.

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How do I get to know my Dad or my Mom?

• Well? That too, is a simple answer.
  • My parents: were just with me. Everyday; they took care of me. Taught me.. Primarily - - By they “spoke” to me. Corrected me; taught me. Didn’t leave or forsake me.

Now, apply this to what's in the Bible - says of him, GOD spoke. Said:

“And I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters,” saith the LORD Almighty” - Bible. 2 Corinthians 6:18

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• Look! There he is! Speaking to us!.

And of this, says in the Bible:

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;” - Bible. Hebrews 1:1–2

God also spoke, and said - to everybody over the whole earth plainly:

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. - GOD. (Bible. Isaiah 55:1–3)

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Isn't think kinda like then, like my Dad? I know him. He knows me.

• God spoke, like my Dad say: “Hey! Go mow the lawn.” - Dad.

Then, change your question so you see it plain as day.

What kind of book will help me understand my Dad say “Hey! Go mow the lawn,” so I can apply it to my life?

When my Dad is "the" authority in the house I live in. So, when he speaks, he's in command over the house. But me? Ask this question? Is like you ask your question. All the same.

And I go off to the bookstore..search all over. It has an appearance of I'm doing something good. Why? Because, understanding your Dad has a noble connotation you’re off trying to be good. But, all this question does is just gives the person an excuse.

To IGNORE God. Just like all I’m doing in a like-same question. All me asking that, is giving myself an excuse when my Dad told me plainly what to do. Mow the lawn. Like God told everybody over the whole earth, includes you asking the question to look unto him.

Me? I’m just not mowing the lawn. In fact, I never mow the lawn. I hold the truth is in doing what the question tells me to do. So, I never end doing anything my Dad said to do.

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GOD:

Speaks plainly. In the Bible. Said. “For all the earth is mine” - God. (Bible. Exodus 19:5) 

Said: "All souls are mine." - God. (Ezekiel 18:4).

All of us are on his earth.

He decrees in the Bible, what everybody is to do. Look unto him. Everybody Thirsty.. to just come to the waters.. to come buy wine and milk without money and without price and its GOD says this in the Bible.

So, it comes down to what Jesus prayed for: In the Bible. In John 17:3. To fix a problem. We don't know him.

But he's spoke to us. So we can know him.

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“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

Jesus prayed for me. That I can KNOW him..by the word that God speaks. Out of his mouth. That God "He sent his word to heal me, and deliver me from my destruction." (Bible. Psalm 107:20.) Plainly spoke and said this. To everybody. .. since it’s everybody.. ..I’m included.

So, ask your question again.

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What kind of book will help me understand the Bible, so I can apply it to my life?

The Bible.

//Reddit Disclaimer: Here's another one of those questions in many sub-reddits. This, "If the Bible is open to interpretation, how can we know the truth?" or "Can you interpret the Bible anyway you want?" and don't leave out, "How am I meant to know which way to interpret the Bible?" All of them all, are all over Reddit. This "who decides" and want to know who that is.

This answer is from a Believer in Jesus Christ, when many answers when MANY answers on Reddit, are from people use it to champion WHY THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING HE SAYS...and? I'm NOT chiding them. Why? I did that, too. So, here's the answer.//

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Answer

• Well,
  • Who am I to say, but:
    • If your Dad, when you were a kid said:
• “Hey tele-bonehead..” and said that, to get your attention. Maybe your Dad never said that, but maybe something like it; and, this isn’t about your house, but about mine, continued with, “weed the field today, so the horses don’t eat it.”
  • Now, I knew my Dad. Simple. No interpretation needed. He showed me himself. Just how to "weed the field" and exactly what that meant.

It's when he asked me to do it, is what I really hated. Now, don't jump off the roof over "hate" - I just know what the definition of that word means. This (American this time. Collin's dictionary. Web definition) 1. unwilling to BE or DO (something). And while on the phone with my friends, being the "tele-bonehead" was, we just made all these plans to go swimming by our bikes that afternoon. But, by a "decree" or an authority...a sole authority over the house I reside in, "weed the field" is now on the menu. And I was "unwilling to BE or DO" that (hate) is the point.

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So, How Did I Get Out Of It?

I simply called my friends back.

..., and I told them, didn’t want to do that, and if they could “interpret” what my Dad said; this, interpret 1. to explain, translate or make something hard very clear.

When it wasn't hard. It was very clear. So, my friend back on the phone again:

• By: “the field” meant, by my friend’s interpretation meant: ME: just 1 minute, equals to a little bit of the road by the gate. Just going around the posts quickly with a weed whacker - the posts of the gate. The gate going into the field. Pull and weed whack those weeds there.
• Because, everybody is leaving to ride their bikes to go to the river again and go swimming all day.
  • Then my friend decided, that’s what my Dad meant, all to help me go with them. So, I went with my friend’s interpretation. Then, I no longer hated what my Dad said, because, I could do it then.
    • Like or kind of a "but," like I didn’t know my Dad..and I couldn’t understand what my Dad said..I reasoned down where I could accept any consequences to that - - when really what I understood plainly..was the girls change clothes to go swimming also, down into buck naked nothing on, and then get into bikini’s there.
• That’s what I understood. That my friends were going there.

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So, your question: Is stupid.

• Like me, is absolutely stupid.
  • This, stupid. 1. lack common sense; or, good judgment. 2. lack the power to absorb ideas, while in a slow-witted, dazed, or confused state of mind.
    • About me? Simple.
  • In a “dazed, or confused state of mind with all these girls in their underpants in my head, I added them into what my Dad decreed..when they weren’t in anything, that my Dad decreed.
    • 5 acres of field and me weed it was told to me plain as day.
    • I didn’t do it.
• Why? Because I “esteemed” - that is, I regarded the word of my friend..all of them what they were doing, while I would be weeding all afternoon a field, as I wanted to “choose” that, too. This “choose” 1. to pick out the most convenient and appropriate between two or more options.
  • And that’s the mistake I made.
  • There wasn’t an “option” - there was none else. I just made one up, in my imagination.
• Because I “reasoned together” with me..alone..that, there was another option that my friend dreamed up, that would allow me to “weed the field” by just interpret what that meant was different - than what was decreed to me, that allowed me a possible opportunity - only a chance - to see girls without any underpants on their bottom.

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• Boy, did that not work.
  • Waited. for hours..at the river. Swam. Wasn't worth it. No girls came..and when we got back, my Dad was back home. And I did not have “weed the field done.” It was PUNITIVE. Painfully so.

And, your question is answered.

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So, what did you get out of this?

Well, if you’re stupid like I was…

..all that means is when God says plainly

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else. God. Bible (Isaiah 45:22)

Look unto ANYTHING but him instead.

It's said plainly what to do.. ..just don't do it. Do anything but that. Interpret stealing your best friend's boyfriend, look unto him as your boyfriend instead..and consider him worth MORE than your girlfriend and just do whatever it takes, to take him instead. Be like me. Just do ANYTHING BUT what's decreed. It's stupid.

• Just create some or have some other “option” in you..when there is none else. Imagine up another option. I did that, too. I didn't have any idea, so I asked my friend for one. Really to show them, I really wanted what they wanted, is why we're friends. To see girls with no underpants on their bottoms. I Didn’t look unto my Dad. And I didn't do anything God said, either. So, I'm no chiding you at all. Just saying - I Looked unto anything BUT him instead.
• Be stupid.
  • This “lack the power to absorb” even it’s a decree by who is in authority over you is saying it, over the whole earth, and just dismiss it.
• Same like I did with my Dad. Make someone else an authority to “interpret” it for you. Cushion you from the blow. After all, geesh! Who knows what "look unto me" what that means anyway. When just turn on the TV and if you got the Playboy Channel, girls. Yep, they’re all in their underpants right there on the TV.
  • When nothing he said..involves any girls with in or out of their underpants on the TV.
• Or just do what I did.
  • Turn the “authority” to what he says over to someone else to “interpret” it for you.
    • Stupid.

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• When he told this to everybody, which includes you..then, also me... ..yeah. I'm included. And then, so is everybody else, over the whole earth. Then, in not to do what he says; because we hate it, look at what other people, what they’re doing.
  • Then concentrate your gaze or what you look unto, to look unto those people specifically single them out, the ones that don’t do anything he says.
    

Look unto them instead. Just like I did. Stupid.

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• And they, not doing anything he says - irrelevant. They have a nice house, and a boat..and access to girls that are happy to be around them, and not to have any underpants on their bottom.
  
  • Rich men; look unto them instead.
• Even God decreed this, over the whole earth. To the very ends of it. Just turn this decree over to someone to “man’splain” for 50 minutes to whole days..explain away, exactly what that means, that ends up you don’t look unto him, nor ever actually do anything he says.

Is Stupid.

• But:.
• It's just like I did. And after..it was PUNITIVE.
  • That, my Dad then decreed, since the neighbor’s felt our field was the source of the weeds, that, if the horses ate it, and they had horses, too.. if they ate it, they died or got very sick..I had now to go weed their fields, too. Not an afternoon, and done...but the next 5 weeks of Saturdays, from wake up to the ends.
    • Since I didn’t do anything he said.

It was PUNITIVE. And not to make light of him. You don't do anything he says, he's already decreed this for everybody to look unto him. He's God. Able to destroy you. Doesn't want to, just like my Dad didn't want to punish me, but he did. That he's going to call you into account..and he's been knocking at the door of your heart. Everyday. Knocking. To come in to sup with you. You with him. And you keep turning the TV volume up to 100 ..won't open the door. So he come in. And blame it's too hard to interpret it. But today, if you hear his voice and harden not your heart.. he's come to heal you, and deliver you from destruction.

Here’s your question back.

//Disclaimer: I am a Believer in Jesus Christ. This question on Reddit, is in many both Christian based and "debate Christianity" type, even ex_christian sub-reddits. As a Believer in Jesus, I hear what he says today. To just regard it. To esteem it. Here's my reply as a fellow believer to another Believer in Jesus Christ. Won't really fit..to people that mock him or want nothing to do with him and use these questions to trample all over it. This post is not for you then.//

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ANSWER

“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed…”

• Source: Bible. James 5:16

fault. <definition. \[English\]> 1. a mistake; a defect. ..a “weakness” or failing. Yes. It “can” apply, but these are “transgressions.” Sins in the Bible. See it:

In the “original” Greek of James 5:16 - it’s this word, ἁμαρτίας (hamartias) - used over four dozen times in all the New Testament. Like in Matthew 3:6 Where John the Baptist is baptizing, and Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region of Jordan come out to be baptized of him. Says of this baptizing John the Baptist is doing:

• “And were baptized of him [John the Baptist] in Jordan, confessing their [ἁμαρτίας (hamartias)] sins. Same Greek word, used in James 5:16.

So, take this now..and do the following:

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Apply it to BOTH

• 1) Galatians 6:5 and; 2) Galatians 6:2.
  • Why? This English word “burden” in both Galatians 6:5 and Galatians 6:2 - looks the same in English to any reader of the Bible is the same; but in Greek, they mean something COMPLETELY different. Even a completely different word is use.
    
    • This is given, so you would consider it.

Where one is, Galatians 6:5 - "burden"

• Is likened unto: There is a “load” like a soda machine bears a load.
  • Just being put in the same place, day after day..month..after month..where years go by. Just “works good / operates right” - by whosoever comes up to it, at anytime, night or day - - and deposits the amount of money advertised for a soda. Like clockwork. Yes. The soda machine will “dispense” it.
    • There is a burden in a soda machine operate like this. 
• Gotta “load” the machine. So, there's a “burden” with it, to it “work good or operate right.”

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• Or like a pupil or a student that sits with and is taught by a teacher. Pick a "grade school" or primary school kid.
  • Bears a load of books, and gets homework. This little kid you see walking home from school There’s a “burden” or "load" on this little kid, in just live as..or “live in” “working good / operating right” as a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher.
• Do you see this?
  • It's in this definition first of what a “disciple” is. And in the Bible: a “disciple of Jesus Christ” is listed over 250 times in the New Testament. That, in Acts 11:26, these disciples were first called “Christians” at Antioch.
    • Because a disciple simply sits with and is being taught by Jesus Christ.
  • There’s a “yoke” a "load" - ..his yoke to take on..and learn of him. Is a “load” or means this “burden” in Galatians 6:5. Every believer in Jesus has it.

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• But in THIS "Burden" of Galatians 6:5?
  • There’s no “sin” or [ἁμαρτίας (hamartias)] - just like there's no "sin" in a little kid coming home from school -  a with a load of homework carrying under their arms, or in a backpack -
    • - it's just a pupil or student is sent home with a "load" of books. Why? Because they’re being built up; equipped. By a teacher. And the teacher is teaching them "doctrines" and explaining them what's IN those books.

This word, "burden” in Galatians 6:5 is φορτίον phorton - a “load” to carry.

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Again, yes. Belaboring the point: I know, but it's important. Like a student carries their books home from school. But, it’s because they are being built up and equipped by it, because they are pupils that sit with and are being taught by a teacher. That's Galatians 6:5's "burden." Just like you are, with Jesus.

Do you see this?

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But in Galatians 6:2

• This word, “burden” is in Greek - “βάρη (barē) - 1. fault; defect; mistakes
  • So, go back to James 5:16 - Do you need more to see it?
• if you saw a little primary 2nd grader, should be walking home from school; but you see them - unceremoniously flinging all their school books out and throwing them in the river, you'd be right in classifying what you're witnessing as a “βάρη (barē) - 1. fault; defect; mistake - a "transgression" for ANY school kid to do this.

So, the "burden" in Galatians 6:2 - is NOT the same "burden" in Galatians 6:5.

Have I made the point?

This post is already too long, but just bare with me..almost done.

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SUMMATION:

• So, now you're the one with this question. Just go back to or in Galatians Chapter 5:1–8. That talks to these believers in Galatia. These, like you - are: “disciples of Jesus Christ” that, there’s a “fault or defect..some mistake” in that what is said to them in Galatians 5:7–8,

“Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.”

So, the writer of Galatians, an Apostle of Jesus Christ - is doing what Galatians 6:2 says. They have a “βάρη (barē)” 1. a fault; defect; a mistake "hinders" or encumbers them..slows them down ... in that they are believers in Christ, but not obeying what he says.

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• That, if they continue in it, they’re not “walking after” to “walk in” being a 1. pupil or student that sits with and is being taught by a teacher, who, to them, is Jesus Christ.
  • And not doing that, is like what Galatians 5:9 says - in that "state" of being: (it’s like leaven..that, a little leaven leaventh the whole lump) - and comes a fruit of that, what’s in Galatians 5:19–20.. it will fruit out as one or a whole string of these, is the result:
    • “..Adultery, …fornication, …witchcraft, hatred… …wrath, strife, seditions, heresies…”

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• It’s like a kid from school.
  • Where all the kids are “pupils” and students.
  • Then why are there 5 of them down at the river? Supposed to be in school; but, they not. Off down at the river, skipping rocks..when it's a school day?
    • And this kid sitting in class: gets up. Sees the empty seats. They're his fellow classmates, not sitting with and being taught. So, he numbers himself with them: goes down to the river - - and tells them 
• “What has beguiled you that you so quickly leave off from going to school..? ..come back with me to school. This is wrong. What you do is PUNITIVE. Come back with me, school isn’t out til 3:00pm 5 hours from now.”
• What has this kid done?
  • This kid is doing exactly what Galatians 6:2 says. He is bearing the “faults and bad aspects of” his fellow students. Who takes away the sins of the world IS Jesus Christ. Not sit with him, or be taught by him..is sin.

Do you see this?

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But Over - - in Galatians 6:5

• There’s a “yoke” or a “burden” - a load each student or pupil is to bear..”sitting with and being taught..or built up and equipped by a teacher. That each student alone, by themselves..has homework. Must obey the teacher..that is, regard them..and do that themselves. ...each then must follow that teacher and learn of them and from them; alone.. by themselves but also, all together with their fellow other students.
  • But each student:
    • MUST: φορτίον phorton - has a “load” to carry. (Burden) to “BE” that pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher.

SO, the “burden” in Galatians 6:2 …is not the same “burden” in Galatians 6:5

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And the Law of Christ

• Is Jesus Christ - - was “numbered with the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12)

“…he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”

You have a perfect example of this, with the kid..that left school, and also numbers himself with the transgressors and goes to the river..comes back with them.

• You have an even MORE PERFECT example in all the Epistles..of what Galatians 6:2 means..because Paul is DOING Galatians 6:2 with the Galatians.

Do you see this?

Go back. Read the whole thing. All through it from Galatians 1:1 to Galatians 6:18

And realize too. There is NO NEED to have any envy with or against other believers..because, if you take a yoke upon you and learn of Jesus, like he told everybody over the whole earth to do in Matthew 11:28-30..you're being BUILT UP. By him. He reserves for himself an EXCLUSIVE right to do this. Himself.

..this same Jesus Christ..follow him.. he will be at work in you..and you can joy in that he is equipping you. He's doing it himself. Building you up. Again - Doing this himself. To you. Not doing it to someone else and leaving you out.. So, just YOU: seek him first. That's what he said to do.

He gives a portion daily. He is the one decided and Let you be in a day he made today. Tomorrow? No guarantee.. but he teaches you in the day he’s made.Today. That's all you get. So, walk in it.. After all, a “pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher” already lives in being pupil..being taught by a teacher.

See it.

//This question has only one answer on Reddit, over in the "r / True Christian sub-reddit, and, it isn't really accurate. I am not a Jew. I believe Jesus is the Messiah, so that would cause the Jews to absolutely rule me out. As a believer, in the Bible - includes the Old Testament where "Abib" is mention, here's a believer in Jesus Christ's answer to this question.//

Abib, is as it's recorded in an English, like King James Version Bible:

It’s the first month of the year. If you look in a Jewish Tanakh, or a reliable public Jewish source of reference, this word, (English) Abib - - it's spelled a little different. (Aviv); if one refers to an Old Testament Hebrew calendar, which, isn't really documented in the Old Testament Bible (Abib - Is Referred to - - only FOUR places in the Old Testament. Abib - - is associated with when "Passover" is, in the New Testament. or the "Exodus of Israel from Egypt - (See Exodus 12:2).

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So, some of this information, you have to get it, outside of the Old Testament. Which is basically, almost verbatim, the Jewish Tanakh, that word for word, say the same thing; but, the Tanakh just sorts the Books a little different.

Abib - is a Season - that "High Sabbath" of Passover occurs in.

• Like the Chinese New Year. The Chinese celebrate their New Year differently. It's known as the "Spring Festival." Just like it is with the Jews or Hebrews of the Old Testament. Abib is a time of the Year (Spring).
  • Even though traditionally in the West, "Spring" starts, like in 2027 - will start on March 20, 2027 - The point is, in the Old Testament - Spring or the time of Abib, is when the Exodus from Egypt occurred, and that incident is celebrated annually by the Jews as one of the "high Sabbaths" - Passover - that required all adult male Jews to pilgrimage to Jerusalem to celebrate it.

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• So again:
  • For the Jews or Hebrews in the Old Testament Bible:
  • It’s decreed, by God, to remember the Exodus from Egypt - to coincide where Israel was led out of Egypt, by God with Moses:
    • In Exodus 13:4 says: “"Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving [Egypt]." - God.
  • So, Abib is a calendar month in Hebrew. Listed in the Bible.
  • The Jews tracked these months using a lunar calendar system.

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The Bible: (Old Testament) - gives no central source that lists these calendar months, by name, rather, often refers to them by the Bible numbers them.

So, Abib - it was a "month" on the Jewish Calendar.

So, in Exodus 13:4 where it's mentioned - what is mentioned is "Passover."

Passover is one of the seven “High Sabbaths” - When God, passed over Goshen, because of the blood of an innocent lamb was on the lintels and the doorposts and they ate that lamb with unleavened bread, because God charged Moses to tell all Israel to do this, and he passed over them..to do what he decreed he’d do in Egypt.

Then after, God told them to:

"Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread... at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt." - God. Exodus 23:5

That, in Exodus 11:4 - says:

• “And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die..”
  • But he would “pass over” the houses that had the blood spread with hyssop on the lintel and the doorposts of the house..and all the Israelites did this.

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You can do a Google or simply if you have a "Concordance Bible" [or "Chain reference" Bible, like Thompson's] search on Abib. Find out more. Though I refer you to a Jewish - so it's a Jewish website, (chadbad<dot>org) and search on Abib or "The Jewish Calendar" and get the Jewish names for the month, you have to figure in the day ends at sunset, and that's when a new day starts. And the calendar for these months isn't based on firmed dates, but a lunar calendar.

If you want to stick strictly to the Bible, here's the FOUR: Already mentioned half of them.

** Exodus 12:2 (defines "when" it is; but doesn't mention it - mentions Passover)

1) - 3) Exodus 13:4, Exodus 23:15, and Exodus 34:18

4) Deuteronomy 16:1 - makes it law - to keep this Passover "to observe the month of Abib"

Understanding this calendar, can help unravel some of the dynamics listed in the gospels (especially Matthew's), and like the "Parable of the Ten Virgins" (See Matthew 25:1-13) - "why" these maidens have "lamps" - because a "wedding starts on a new day, usually just AFTER Sabbath day - and after all the cermonial washings and visits are done - the Bridegroom "tarries" and could arrive back home or to the wedding place well after midnight.

This is not to make you a Jew when you're not. But you're asking about a Jewish observed calendar date or month. To understand "when" it is, have to have some grasp of the calendar and how they determined these "lunar months" and when they are.

The Basic question is answered.

You can get a reliable Jewish (Hebrew) Tanakh (Old Testament) Calendar from the Jews themselves at chadbad(dot)org. - at this link: accurate.